Open Road
Lemon opens crisp and slightly waxy, immediately giving way to lavender's purple-herbal sweep.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
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- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Lavender
- Clary Sage
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens crisp and slightly waxy, immediately giving way to lavender's purple-herbal sweep. The pairing reads like a clean classical fougere setup, recognisable from the first minute.
Clary sage extends the herbal phase, adding a tea-like, slightly tobacco-tinged complexity that keeps the lavender from feeling old-fashioned. The aromatic heart holds for a long stretch.
Vetiver, cedar and patchouli build the base into something dry and rooted, with vetiver supplying the smoky earthy bite and patchouli adding a faintly sweet earthiness underneath. The overall character is a workwear-friendly aromatic fougere, balanced and uncomplicated, suited to office and weekend wear in temperate weather.
Scent twins
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