Eau Sauvage Dior 1966 Lotion Après-Rasage
Lavender, rosemary, and basil open with a confident herbal-aromatic green snap, cumin adds an unexpected warm, slightly skin-sweat earthy spice, and lemon and bergamot brighten the corners with citric lift.
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.
- Mossy80
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Basil
- Cumin
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLavender, rosemary, and basil open with a confident herbal-aromatic green snap, cumin adds an unexpected warm, slightly skin-sweat earthy spice, and lemon and bergamot brighten the corners with citric lift. The contrast between green herbs and warm cumin is the signature.
The heart settles into sandalwood and jasmine — the sandalwood creamy, the jasmine softly indolic — with patchouli weaving earthy darkness through and rose adding a quiet pink floral thread.
The base is the classic mid-60s chypre landing: oakmoss heavy and damp, vetiver grassy-dry, amber warming, musk smoothing the close. Overall the character is a polished aromatic chypre with a herbal-cumin opening and mossy-woody close, vintage in shape — suited to year-round daily wear including warm weather, with surprising versatility for its age.
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.
