Defy Parfum
A spicier, denser concentration of Defy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Chocolate70
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readA spicier, denser concentration of Defy. Pink pepper and cardamom open hot and a little dry; ginger and lavender share the heart, balancing the bite with something cleaner and more aromatic.
Sandalwood and vetiver hold the base in tandem — creamy on one side, smoky-grassy on the other — and an undertone of cocoa adds darkness without going gourmand. The lavender is the throughline that keeps it readable as a Defy flanker rather than a generic spicy-woody.
It projects more than the EDT original and stays warmer through the drydown. Cool weather, evenings, anywhere the spice and cocoa can warm up against skin instead of evaporating in heat.
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.
