King
King opens with a bright citrus trio that feels almost scrubbed clean—bergamot leading orange and lemon in a tart, soapy brightness.
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.
- Musk50
- Bergamot45
- Orange40
- Vanilla35
- Lemon35
By the editors · 2 min readKing opens with a bright citrus trio that feels almost scrubbed clean—bergamot leading orange and lemon in a tart, soapy brightness. There's little complexity here, just cheerful lift that doesn't linger long before the base rushes in.
What follows is a straightforward white musk foundation, sweetened with vanilla and given slight warmth by amber. The transition is abrupt rather than graceful, moving from zesty to soft within minutes. The dry down settles into that familiar clean-laundry territory, pleasant and inoffensive, with vanilla rounding the edges into something slightly gourmand without much depth.
This is approachable masculinity without edges—office-safe, gym-bag-friendly, designed for someone who wants to smell fresh without making statements. It wears close and fades within a few hours, leaving behind only a faint sweetness.
