Paris – Édimbourg
Paris-Edimbourg opens with a brisk lavender that feels more Scottish moor than Provençal field—clean, aromatic, slightly bitter around the edges.
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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Earthy50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Vanilla
- Musk
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readParis-Edimbourg opens with a brisk lavender that feels more Scottish moor than Provençal field—clean, aromatic, slightly bitter around the edges. The vetiver arrives quickly, grounding the composition with earthy, almost smoky undertones that suggest heather and wet stone. Cedar adds a pencil-shaving dryness that keeps the lavender from turning soapy.
As it settles, vanilla emerges not as sweetness but as a creamy, slightly leathery warmth, the kind that comes from fine tailoring rather than dessert. The musk stays close to the skin, blending with the vetiver to create a soft, grey-toned finish that feels distinctly masculine without aggression.
This is a fougère stripped of its traditional barbershop associations, more interested in cashmere sweaters and rain-dampened wool than aftershave. It wears close, elegant, and unexpectedly restrained for something bearing the Chanel name.
Scent twins
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