Yatagan Caron 1976 Eau de Toilette
Yatagan announces itself with a green-grey blast that feels simultaneously botanical and adversarial: galbanum and petitgrain sharpened against bitter tarragon, a lavender that reads medicinal rather than soft.
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.
- Oakmoss75
- Vetiver70
- Patchouli60
- Lavender55
- Leather50
By the editors · 2 min readYatagan announces itself with a green-grey blast that feels simultaneously botanical and adversarial: galbanum and petitgrain sharpened against bitter tarragon, a lavender that reads medicinal rather than soft. It is unequivocally a cologne of another era — the 1970s masculine in full command posture. The heart is unexpectedly humid: vetiver and patchouli rise through jasmine, earthy and animalic, with none of the woody polish that contemporary accords impose.
By dry-down, oakmoss does its mossy, damp-forest work — the deep greenness that IFRA restrictions have largely retired from modern compositions. Leather adds a sere animalic edge; coconut contributes a hazy waxen sweetness that smooths the whole without domesticating it. A period artifact, proudly so. Vintage fougère devotees and contrarian collectors will feel immediately at home.
