Sauvage Eau de Parfum
The opening rushes forward with a bracing bergamot that feels almost electric—bright citrus stripped of sweetness, channeling raw energy rather than refinement.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Amber90
- Citrus85
- Lavender75
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Star Anise
- Nutmeg
- Ambroxan
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening rushes forward with a bracing bergamot that feels almost electric—bright citrus stripped of sweetness, channeling raw energy rather than refinement. Within minutes, lavender appears not as a gentle herbaceous note but as something sharper and more aromatic, flanked by the licorice edge of star anise and a whisper of nutmeg that adds warmth without turning gourmand.
The base settles into Ambroxan's signature mineral-saline presence, that clean synthetic ambergris molecule that radiates from the skin like heated stone. A thread of vanilla tempers the starkness but never dominates, keeping the composition firmly in woody-ambery territory rather than sweet.
This is a fragrance built for legibility—assertive projection, streamlined structure, designed to read clearly across a room. It suits those who want presence without complexity, a modern masculinity that leans into synthetic clarity rather than natural nuance.
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.
