Spirit Of The Brave 2019
Galbanum opens sharp and green, almost stem-bitter, with bergamot adding a clean citrus brightness on top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Labdanum
- Tonka Bean
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens sharp and green, almost stem-bitter, with bergamot adding a clean citrus brightness on top. Clary sage threads through the entrance with an herbal-aromatic warmth that softens the galbanum's bite.
The pyramid skips a defined heart, so the green-aromatic top hands off directly to the base. Labdanum emerges as the central warmth — resinous, slightly leathery, and balsamic — and tonka rounds it with a creamy almond-vanilla sweetness underneath.
The overall character is an aromatic-fougère structure pulled toward an amber drydown. Galbanum and sage carry the freshness up top, while labdanum and tonka build the warmth at the bottom — masculine in register, modern in finish, and balanced between green sharpness and balsamic comfort.
Scent twins
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