Elite Gentleman
A structured aromatic fougère with a distinctly bitter, resinous core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Woody60
- Aromatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon Verbena
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cognac
- Spruce
- Mace
By the editors · 2 min readA structured aromatic fougère with a distinctly bitter, resinous core. Cardamom, bergamot, and basil open with familiar warmth, but lemon verbena adds an unexpected citrus-green brightness alongside them. The transition to the heart is where the character declares itself: cognac and cade oil introduce smoky, slightly medicinal depth, while spruce and mace contribute a sharp, dry-woods bitterness. The overall heart accord reads as roasted-woody rather than floral or fresh.
Frankincense and cedar anchor the dry-down in austere, dry resin — a finish that reads as considered rather than commercial. A fall and winter fragrance, more comfortable in serious contexts than casual ones, and deliberately so.
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.
