L'Homme Sage
Saffron and cardamom open with a dry, leathery spice — saffron's faint medicinal warmth meeting cardamom's brighter green-spicy lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody80
- Warm Spicy50
- Smoky50
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Guaiac Wood
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and cardamom open with a dry, leathery spice — saffron's faint medicinal warmth meeting cardamom's brighter green-spicy lift. The top is short and serves as a doorway to the woody heart.
Guaiac wood, cedar, and patchouli build a dense, smoky-resinous middle. Guaiac brings the smoke and rubbery edge, cedar a clean dryness, patchouli a slightly earthy undertone. The whole reads as a focused wood study rather than a layered composition.
Oakmoss, incense, and amber settle the base with damp, slightly church-like resin and a quiet warm sweetness. Overall: a sober, masculine wood-and-resin scent with strong longevity, controlled projection, and a meditative, cool-weather character.
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.
