The Excelsior Bouquet
Sage opens crisp and camphoraceous, its bitter-green edge slicing through grapefruit's tart pulp to create an aromatic-citrus accord that feels simultaneously cool and peppery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Grapefruit
- Sage
- Nutmeg
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readSage opens crisp and camphoraceous, its bitter-green edge slicing through grapefruit's tart pulp to create an aromatic-citrus accord that feels simultaneously cool and peppery. The heart doubles down on the herb, now joined by nutmeg's dry, dusty warmth that turns the composition darker and more masculine, edging it away from simple freshness toward something barbershop-resinous. Tonka bean lands first in the base, spreading a soft almond-vanilla layer that sweetens the lingering spices, while vetiver injects smoky, rooty earth and leather supplies a quietly waxed-saddle finish that keeps the sweetness in check. On skin the scent relaxes into a low-powdered, tonka-forward skin trail where the earlier citrus has completely evaporated, leaving a grey-green, leather-flecked haze that sits close but lasts.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
