Wild Country
The opening is a herb-and-citrus salvo — lavender, lemon, bergamot, and anise laid over cardamom and basil, sharp and unapologetically 1960s in its composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Powdery50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Basil
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a herb-and-citrus salvo — lavender, lemon, bergamot, and anise laid over cardamom and basil, sharp and unapologetically 1960s in its composition. Sandalwood and cedar absorb the anise in the middle register while heliotrope adds a faint almond-powder sweetness. The base unfolds slowly: tonka, benzoin, oakmoss, and vetiver building an earthy, resinous dry-down that carries through most of the day.
Wild Country is a fougère of its era — built for outdoors and all-day wear before projection was a metric anyone measured. It reads masculine in the classic sense: herbal, woody, slightly sweet-smoky. Falls and winters suit it best. A good entry point for those curious about how everyday masculine fragrance smelled before the 1990s clean revolution.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
