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Lavender opens with a dry, herbal clarity, leaning medicinal rather than floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy80
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Nutmeg
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens with a dry, herbal clarity, leaning medicinal rather than floral. Clary sage and nutmeg pull it toward an aromatic spice territory — this is a composed masculine structure, deliberately traditional in its skeleton.
The base is where it earns its character: oakmoss, vetiver, and leather form a thick, slightly animalic foundation, grounded further by patchouli and amber. Sandalwood adds some warmth without sweetening the composition. The overall impression is earthy and mossy with a firm aromatic spine — cool-weather skin close to the wearer, projecting modestly. It reads as vintage in character, appropriate for formal or evening wear in cold conditions.
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.
