Lafayette Street
Lafayette Street opens with a bright bergamot flash that quickly gives way to something smoother and more synthetic in the best sense—ambroxan lending a clean, skin-like warmth that hovers just above the surface.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Citrus70
- Vanilla60
- Fruity55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Apple
- Ambroxan
- Vanilla
- Tonka Bean
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readLafayette Street opens with a bright bergamot flash that quickly gives way to something smoother and more synthetic in the best sense—ambroxan lending a clean, skin-like warmth that hovers just above the surface. The apple reads less fruity than crisp, almost metallic, a cool contrast to the milky vanilla that begins to unfold underneath. It's modern and intentionally minimal, avoiding the heavier gourmand route despite the tonka and vanilla base.
As it settles, the ambergris accord adds a salty, slightly marine quality that keeps the sweetness from becoming cloying. The effect is polished and urban, more fitted shirt than cashmere sweater. It wears close and comfortable, neither loud nor invisible.
This suits someone who prefers their vanilla streamlined rather than indulgent—a daily fragrance for clean, contemporary tastes. Unisex in the way good design is unisex: no statement, just clarity.
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.
