Declaration
A sharp rush of bitter citrus and birch greets you immediately—green, aromatic, almost medicinal in its clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Mossy60
- Leather55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Birch
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp rush of bitter citrus and birch greets you immediately—green, aromatic, almost medicinal in its clarity. This isn't a polite introduction. Within minutes, warm spices shoulder their way forward: ginger with its crystalline heat, cinnamon that feels dusted rather than gourmand, while iris lends a faint powdery coolness beneath the warmth.
The drydown settles into something woody and subtly leathered, with oakmoss providing structure rather than vintage heaviness. Cedar and amber form a quiet base that stays close to the skin, restrained where many masculine fragrances shout.
Declaration suits someone who prefers definition over diffusion—clean-shaven, deliberate, uninterested in sweetness. It feels composed but not austere, like good tailoring worn without fuss. The jasmine remains barely perceptible, a suggestion rather than a statement, keeping the composition from becoming too angular.
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.
