Vert et Blanc
Galbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap that pierces like crushed stems, while clary sage adds a bittersweet herbal lift that keeps the top angular and cool.
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
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Clary Sage
- Gardenia
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap that pierces like crushed stems, while clary sage adds a bittersweet herbal lift that keeps the top angular and cool. Gardenia and jasmine bloom together in the heart, their creamy white petals dusted with a dry cinnamon heat that prevents the flowers from turning lush; ylang-ylang supplies a faint banana-like oiliness that glues the spices to the blossoms. As the woods arrive, sandalwood’s milky grain meets vetiver’s smoked grass, both locked in place by oakmoss’s forest-floor dampness and the resinous tug of labdanum, benzoin and styrax, so the dry-down stays mossy, leathery and slightly medicinal rather than sweet. Projection radiates a polite arm’s-length green sillage for six hours, perfect for spring offices or cool early-fall brunches where crisp tailoring matches the scent’s clipped foliage 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.
