He Wood Cologne
Ginger and lemon launch the composition with a sharp, fizzy energy — the ginger is more bite than warmth, kept bright by the citrus.
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.
- Aquatic70
- Citrus70
- Marine60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Amber
- Lemon
- Musk
- Violet Leaf
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and lemon launch the composition with a sharp, fizzy energy — the ginger is more bite than warmth, kept bright by the citrus. A marine note runs underneath from the start, giving the whole opening a damp, coastal feel.
Violet leaf and violet move into a green-cool register rather than a floral one. The leafy violet blends with the aquatic undercurrent to produce a fresh, slightly ozonic heart that keeps the masculine structure clear and uncluttered.
Vetiver and cedar in the base add a dry woodiness that absorbs the marine brightness. Amber prevents the drydown from going too austere. The result is a clean, linear aquatic-woody fragrance suited to warm, active settings.
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.
