Déclaration Essence
A woody-aromatic chypre from the Déclaration lineage with more structure in the opening than expected.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Earthy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Orange Blossom
- Cedar
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Oakmoss
- Birch
By the editors · 2 min readA woody-aromatic chypre from the Déclaration lineage with more structure in the opening than expected. Lavender, orange blossom, and cedar arrive alongside orange and bergamot — the cedar presence in the top giving the opening architectural weight rather than a clean citrus start. It's a denser, more assertive opening than the original Déclaration.
Oakmoss, birch, and cardamom form the heart: oakmoss functioning as a mid-phase note rather than a base element, lending the middle passage a green, mossy austerity. Birch adds dry smokiness against lemon and cardamom's spiced citrus warmth. The heart is more challenging than the opening promised.
Moss, sandalwood, rosewood, vetiver, and amber close in a warm, woody-chypre structure. Two moss accords create a distinctly green-earthy character; rosewood adds soft woody warmth against the vetiver's dry depth. Dense, well-built, and longer-wearing than its cologne lineage suggests.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
