Cuba Gold
Cuba Gold opens with a crisp citrus snap—grapefruit edged with the gentle heat of pink pepper.
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.
- Lavender70
- Sweet60
- Amber55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCuba Gold opens with a crisp citrus snap—grapefruit edged with the gentle heat of pink pepper. The brightness fades quickly into a lavender-vetiver center that feels clean and functional, more functional barbershop than aromatic exploration. The lavender is soapy and direct, while the vetiver adds a green, slightly earthy anchor.
The drydown settles into a soft amber-tonka warmth with vanilla smoothing the edges. It's sweet but not cloying, familiar in the way of many budget masculines from the late nineties and early 2000s. The whole composition moves fast and stays close to the skin.
Cuba Gold is straightforward and unpretentious—a reach-for-it fragrance that asks nothing of you. It suits young wearers or anyone looking for an easy, inoffensive sweetness without complexity or longevity demands.
Scent twins
In this family
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