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.
- Lavender65
- Mossy60
- Woody55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Basil
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening lavender-basil accord pins this firmly in the tradition of the grand French fougère — aromatic and brisk, with citrus burnishing the edges. But where most fougères stay in that register, Boucheron Pour Homme does something more ambitious: the heart opens into a lush floral quartet that most masculine fragrances would have avoided in 1991, jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, and rose sitting in a composition marketed to men without apology.
The base is where the jeweler's sensibility arrives: oakmoss, vetiver, sandalwood, benzoin, and tonka layered together in a way that is rich without being sweet, incense threading through to keep it from turning gourmand.
Opulent and self-possessed — a fragrance from when men's perfumery was allowed to be complicated.
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.
