Monarch
Grapefruit and bergamot open bright but quickly turn warm — pink pepper and cardamom thread cinnamon through the early heart, with rose and freesia keeping the floral side bright rather than indolic.
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.
- Leather60
- Balsamic55
- Smoky55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open bright but quickly turn warm — pink pepper and cardamom thread cinnamon through the early heart, with rose and freesia keeping the floral side bright rather than indolic. Lily of the valley adds a clean white edge.
The base is where the composition goes regal: leather and incense built up with labdanum, oakmoss, vanilla, tonka, and patchouli. Cedar holds the structure. The arc moves from a sparkling, almost sharp opening into a dim, leathered drydown that reads ceremonial. Long-wearing and dense without feeling old-fashioned. A composition that ends very different from where it started.
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.
