Mem
Lavender and petitgrain open with a clean herbal-citrus snap, grapefruit adding a bitter pink edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Grapefruit
- Mint
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and petitgrain open with a clean herbal-citrus snap, grapefruit adding a bitter pink edge. The first minutes are bright and aromatic, almost barbershop-classical, before the perfume reveals its real intentions.
Mint adds a cool green lift to the heart while ylang-ylang and damask rose unfurl honeyed and slightly indolic, vanilla starting to thread sweetness through the florals. The transition is gradual and rich. The base is the perfume's heavyweight: civet, castoreum, and ambergris fused with labdanum and amber into a dense animalic-resinous warmth, musk amplifying the skin-on-skin hum. Texture is golden, almost greasy, deeply animal — fur, sweat, ancient resin. Projection is strong for hours.
The overall character is opulent, animalic, and unmistakably old-school in the best sense.
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.




