Black
Lavender opens clean and cool, its herbal edge sharpened by a mentholated lift that feels almost metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Lavender90
- Woody70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Lavender
- Pepper
- Cumin
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens clean and cool, its herbal edge sharpened by a mentholated lift that feels almost metallic. Cedar quickly folds in, adding dry woodgrain that strips away the lavender’s sweetness and leaves a taut, pencil-shaving spine. Nutmeg arrives warm and slightly oily, dusting the cedar with a soft brown spice that rounds the heart without adding sugar. The dry-down brings oud, but it’s a polished, smoke-free variant that clings to the cedar like resin, extending wood rather than adding animalics. Projection stays within shirt-collar range for six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Cool evenings and rainy spring commutes fit best, where the woodsmoke-free oud reads as crisp rather than heavy.
Scent twins
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