Cerruti 1881 Intense Pour Homme
Basil slashes through bergamot in the opening, its green bite sharpened by pink pepper crackle that lifts the citrus rather than sweetening it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Lavender80
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBasil slashes through bergamot in the opening, its green bite sharpened by pink pepper crackle that lifts the citrus rather than sweetening it. Lavender lands quickly, swapping the aromatic green for a clean, slightly soap-edged barbershop core while ylang-ylang sneaks in a muted banana-cream softness that keeps the lavender from turning metallic. Patchouli adds earthy tobacco undertones that bridge into the base, letting sandalwood warm the composition with dry cream and oakmoss supply a cool forest-floor bitterness. Leather emerges late as a suede whisper tucked inside musk, giving the dry-down a quiet skin-scent intimacy rather than statement power. Projection stays polite—arm-length for three hours—then hugs skin through a workday or dinner date.
Scent twins
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