Monocle Scent One: Hinoki
Antoine Maisondieu built this 2008 Monocle collaboration around the hinoki cypress and a specific memory: the open-air wooden bath at Tawaraya inn in Kyoto, drawn at dawn in cold weather.
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.
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Camphor
- Black Pepper
- Cypress
- Green Notes
- Cedar
- Thyme
- Pine
By the editors · 2 min readAntoine Maisondieu built this 2008 Monocle collaboration around the hinoki cypress and a specific memory: the open-air wooden bath at Tawaraya inn in Kyoto, drawn at dawn in cold weather. The opening is bracing — cypress, camphor, a peppery green snap — that immediately suggests freshly split wood and resin rather than a finished perfume.
The heart settles into hinoki proper, supported by pine, cedar, and thyme; it reads almost photo-realistically, like sitting on a warm wooden bench in a cold room. The drydown is dry and contemplative: olibanum, vetiver, juniper, and a thread of oakmoss giving it forest depth. It projects modestly and lasts well, more meditative object than statement piece.
Scent twins
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