Mauvais Garçon
Cinnamon dominates the opening, its dry bark heat crackling against bright bergamot and the green snap of basil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon dominates the opening, its dry bark heat crackling against bright bergamot and the green snap of basil. Nutmeg adds a dusty sweetness that softens the spice, preparing space for a clean lavender heart that strips away kitchen warmth and installs barbershop cool. As the lavender settles, tonka and vanilla swell, coating the spice in soft almond-like coumarin while sandalwood and cedar sketch a blond wood frame that keeps the sweetness airy rather than syrupy. Patchoui arrives late, adding only a faint earthy undercurrent that prevents the vanilla from turning dessert-like, leaving a skin trail of spiced woods dusted with powdered sugar. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, tilting casual and office-friendly through autumn and early winter days.
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.
