1805 Tonnerre
The opening is startling—a metallic, mineral burst of gunpowder accord cut with tart lime and wreathed in smoke.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic50
- Smoky45
- Woody35
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Gunpowder
- Lime
- Smoke
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is startling—a metallic, mineral burst of gunpowder accord cut with tart lime and wreathed in smoke. It recalls the acrid air after fireworks or the tang of flint struck against steel. This isn't a polite interpretation of maritime history; it's visceral and strange, closer to the scorched deck of a warship than any genteel cologne.
As it settles, smoky cedar and amber appear, grounding the composition without softening its edges entirely. The lime fades but leaves behind a faint brightness, like sunlight filtering through haze. What emerges is dark, resinous, and oddly compelling—neither traditionally masculine nor easy to categorize.
This is for those who find conventional woody ambers too safe. It requires patience and a tolerance for the unconventional, but it rewards with genuine character and an atmosphere unlike anything else in modern perfumery.
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.
