Original
Denim Original opens with petitgrain's woody-green citrus edge alongside bergamot, grounded by clary sage's faintly camphor-like quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Fresh Spicy50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Olibanum
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readDenim Original opens with petitgrain's woody-green citrus edge alongside bergamot, grounded by clary sage's faintly camphor-like quality. Olibanum — frankincense — surfaces in the heart, lending a quiet ecclesiastical depth that lifts the composition above purely functional territory. The combination of clean citrus and resinous incense is modest but more interesting than the brand name suggests.
The base is lean and purposeful: vetiver earthy and dry, cedar adding structure, amber a touch of warmth. It doesn't evolve dramatically, nor does it need to. This is pragmatic fragrance designed to smell clean and slightly distinguished at minimal cost — reliable, unpretentious daily wear.
Scent twins
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