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
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