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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readRoadster Sport opens with a brisk citrus blast—bergamot and lime cutting through the air like wind through an open convertible. Within minutes, the green aromatic duo of rosemary and sage takes over, grounding the brightness with a dry, almost medicinal clarity that feels more Sunday hike than Saturday night. Black pepper adds a subtle rasp at the edges.
The drydown settles into guaiac wood and patchouli, earthy but clean, never too sweet or heavy. The woods have a faintly smoky quality that keeps things interesting without veering into campfire territory. The whole composition stays light on the skin, airy rather than tenacious.
This is Cartier's take on casual masculinity—outdoorsy without being rugged, fresh without being squeaky. It suits someone who wants fragrance as backdrop rather than statement, a scent that doesn't compete with the day ahead.
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.
