Eau de Lierre Eau de Toilette
The first encounter is green and sharp—galbanum's resinous bite softened by pink pepper's warm fizz, like crushing ivy stems still wet from morning.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Green65
- Black Pepper55
- Amber50
- Musk45
By the editors · 2 min readThe first encounter is green and sharp—galbanum's resinous bite softened by pink pepper's warm fizz, like crushing ivy stems still wet from morning. This is not decorative greenery but something cooler and more architectural, the scent of stone walls softened by creeping tendrils rather than a sunlit garden. The ivy note feels true to the plant's slightly waxy, shadowed character.
As it settles, amber and musk round the edges without sweetening them. The base is clean rather than animalic, pulling the composition toward something between cologne and cologne-with-intent. What emerges is restrained and oddly urban—ivy imagined as texture rather than perfume, an idea of green shadow translated into wearable form.
Best for those who want freshness without citrus, greenness without meadow sweetness. It reads androgynous and wears close, the kind of scent that makes a quiet impression in air-conditioned spaces. Diptyque before they leaned fully into the candle aesthetic, still treating eau de toilette as a form worth serious attention.