Modern Classic Noir
Bergamot flashes quickly, leaving a cool metallic edge before star anise steps forward with its black-licorice bite.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Star Anise
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes quickly, leaving a cool metallic edge before star anise steps forward with its black-licorice bite. The heart folds that anise into a dry, papery rose, creating a slightly medicinal floral-spice accord that sits midway between apothecary and flower shop. As the top burns off, tonka and vanilla warm the leather, softening it from rawhide to worn jacket, while patchouli earth and blond tobacco add a quiet hay-like sweetness that keeps the composition masculine-leaning. Musk sheathes the base, turning the scent into a close-wearing skin amber that projects no farther than shirt-collar distance and lingers for six-to-eight hours. Cool evenings and autumn air let the tobacco-leather accord breathe without becoming cloy-heavy; office-safe if sprayed once.
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.
