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.
- Aromatic50
- Lavender50
- Leather50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Tarragon
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Lavender
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readMr. Burberry arrives green and brisk — mint and tarragon sharpening the grapefruit opener before cardamom introduces a warm spiced undercurrent. Lavender anchors the heart, joined by cedar and nutmeg, a combination that gives this its quietly British quality: a fougère that smells like the countryside in autumn, not a gym locker. The base is where it earns its name — guaiac wood, sandalwood, vetiver, and oakmoss built into something warm and mildly smoky, benzoin rounding it out. Confident and well-constructed, Mr. Burberry wears the classic masculine structure without looking like it's trying to. One of Burberry's better recent efforts.
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.
