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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Artemisia
- Lavender
- Grapefruit
- Mandarin Orange
- Geranium
- Cedar
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readPerceive for Men opens with a generous citrus fanfare — grapefruit and mandarin, sharpened by geranium and given an herbal edge by lavender and artemisia. The top is lively without being sharp. The heart contracts to clary sage and cedar, a classic aromatic combination that smells clean and slightly cool in the way of early-2000s men's fragrances.
The base — cedarwood, patchouli, and amber — provides a dry, resinous warmth that gives the fragrance its modest staying power. It fits the aromatic chypre tradition: citrus-herbal opening with an earthy, woody dry-down. Wears well in mild weather and suits situations where something office-appropriate but not anonymous is the goal.
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.
