Safari
Lemon opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly gets folded into church-pew incense smoke, creating a dry, resinous brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Lemon
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Oakmoss
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly gets folded into church-pew incense smoke, creating a dry, resinous brightness. Patchouli arrives early, adding loamy earth that mutes the citrus and lets papyrus contribute a crisp, reed-like greenness. As the heart settles, the tobacco leaf emerges cured rather than sweet, its tannic leaf pairing with oakmoss to form a matte, forest-floor accord that smells like damp bark and old paper. The dry-down stays firmly woody-smoky: no ambered glow, just cool moss, tobacco humus and a whisper of extinguished incense that clings to shirt cuffs. Projection remains restrained, hovering inside personal space for six hours, perfect for cool autumn days when you want a contemplative skin-scent rather than a room-filler.
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.




