Serpentine
Serpentine opens with cut grass and galbanum—a green, almost photosynthetic freshness with vegetal crispness from iris leaf and a faint white-noise quality from the aldehydes underneath.
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.
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Iris Leaf
- Galbanum
- Grass
- Labdanum
- Black Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSerpentine opens with cut grass and galbanum—a green, almost photosynthetic freshness with vegetal crispness from iris leaf and a faint white-noise quality from the aldehydes underneath. It is cool, northern, and immediate.
The transition is deliberate: labdanum arrives in the heart as a resinous anchor, pulling the composition toward urban asphalt. This tension—botanical opening against petrochemical resin—is where Comme des Garçons feels most characteristically itself.
The base is a study in smoked woods: guaiac, juniper, cedar. Benzoin adds sweetness without softening the overall character; black musk deepens the shadows. Nutmeg provides a faint spice pulse that keeps the dry-down from going flat. The bottle was designed by Tracey Emin.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
