Silver Shadow Private
Cardamom and bergamot start it, with lemon trailing — the citrus is held in check by the spice, which gives the opening a quiet, slightly resinous lift instead of going outright fresh.
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.
- Warm Spicy60
- Lavender55
- Leather55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Violet
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot start it, with lemon trailing — the citrus is held in check by the spice, which gives the opening a quiet, slightly resinous lift instead of going outright fresh.
Lavender and violet anchor the heart. Lavender keeps the spine masculine-classical; violet brings a powdery, almost candy-soft sweetness underneath, which keeps the fragrance from reading as another office-fresh men's woody. The two notes together create a small, recognisably retro effect.
The base is leather and musk over indistinct woods — sleek leather, not animalic, with the musk closing the distance. The whole thing stays close, polished, deliberately understated. Cool-weather wear, evening or work, for wearers who want presence without volume.
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.
