Sauvage Parfum
Sauvage Parfum opens with a flash of bright bergamot that quickly gives way to a dominant sandalwood accord, creamy and almost lactonic in texture.
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.
- Woody85
- Sweet80
- Vanilla75
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Lavender
- Nutmeg
- Tonka Bean
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readSauvage Parfum opens with a flash of bright bergamot that quickly gives way to a dominant sandalwood accord, creamy and almost lactonic in texture. The wood here is less about raw timber and more about a polished, slightly sweetened interpretation that anchors the composition from the first minutes onward.
As it settles, tonka bean and vanilla wrap around the sandalwood, creating a warm, enveloping base that reads more dessert-like than austere. Olibanum adds a subtle resinous quality, a faint incense trail that keeps the sweetness from becoming purely gourmand. The progression is linear but deliberate, moving from citrus brightness to wood-vanilla depth without sharp transitions.
This is the richest entry in the Sauvage line, trading the earlier versions' pepper and ambroxan for something denser and more overtly comforting. It suits cooler weather and those who want a woody fragrance that leans sweet rather than dry, familiar rather than challenging.
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.
