Contre Pouvoir
Grapefruit and bergamot open cleanly, with cardamom adding a dry, slightly smoky edge that keeps the citrus from feeling too conventional.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Ambroxan
- Amber
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open cleanly, with cardamom adding a dry, slightly smoky edge that keeps the citrus from feeling too conventional. The opening is brisk but purposeful, signalling something heavier underneath.
Vetiver arrives early, lending an earthy, rooty structure that anchors the composition. Tobacco and ambroxan fill out the middle and base, delivering a dry, woody warmth rather than anything overtly sweet. The amber here reads cool rather than honeyed, working with the tobacco to create a muted, resinous character.
Overall, Contre Pouvoir sits in confident masculine territory — dry, slightly austere, with enough citrus lift to keep it from feeling dense. Best suited to cooler temperatures.
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.
