Classic Touch
Apple and pear tumble out first, crisp and lightly sweet, while grapefruit slices their sugar with a bitter citrus edge.
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.
- Iris60
- Leather60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pear
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readApple and pear tumble out first, crisp and lightly sweet, while grapefruit slices their sugar with a bitter citrus edge. The heart layers violet leaf's cool green crunch against powder-soft iris and a clean lavender spike, creating a suede-like floral that still feels airy. Sandalwood and cedar knit the woods early, so when the leather arrives it lands as a thin, matte hide rather than a smoky saddle, and the ambergris adds a salt-skin glow that keeps the base translucent. Wear it through a workday and it stays polite: the fruits vanish in twenty minutes, the iris-lavender tandem hums for three hours, then you're left with a skin-scent of pale wood and washed leather perfect for shirt collars. Projection sits at arm's length for the first hour, then pulls inward, ideal for office or travel in spring through early fall.
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.
