Original Wood
Original Wood opens with violet leaf — crisp, slightly bitter, and green rather than floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody90
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Cedar
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOriginal Wood opens with violet leaf — crisp, slightly bitter, and green rather than floral. That sharpness sets a cool, clean tone before cedar moves in to anchor the composition with its dry, pencil-shaving texture.
The cedar here reads stripped-back rather than lush, playing well against the violet leaf's aquatic-green edge. Amber and musk in the base soften the structure gradually, adding warmth without sweetness, nudging the whole thing toward skin temperature.
The result is a spare, linear woody-green scent — uncluttered and office-appropriate. It won't command a room, but it sits cleanly close to the wearer with a dependable, quiet persistence.
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.




