Declaration Cologne
Declaration Cologne is Mathilde Laurent's 2010 reread of the 1998 original — same skeleton, sunnier expression.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readDeclaration Cologne is Mathilde Laurent's 2010 reread of the 1998 original — same skeleton, sunnier expression. Orange and bergamot replace the parent's bitter citrus opening with something rounder and more lit, while ginger and cardamom keep the spice signature recognizable but turn its temperature down.
Jasmine in the heart is more atmospheric than floral, smoothing the transition from spice to wood. The base of vetiver and Virginia cedar is dry and clean, never smoky — a cologne reading of the chord rather than a fragrance one.
It sits halfway between a traditional eau de cologne and the original Declaration: short by Declaration standards, longer than a true cologne, and easy to wear in heat without losing the family character.
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.