Potion
Potion opens with mint and thyme — cool and herbal, a bracing combination that reads Mediterranean rather than clinical.
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.
- Cinnamon80
- Amber70
- Patchouli50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Thyme
- Cinnamon
- Rose
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPotion opens with mint and thyme — cool and herbal, a bracing combination that reads Mediterranean rather than clinical. The thyme in particular gives the opening a slightly earthy quality that anchors the mint's coolness rather than letting it float free.
Cinnamon and rose in the heart make for a classically warm pairing, the spice wrapping the floral in dry warmth without overwhelming it. The rose reads distinctly masculine in this context — more about texture than prettiness. Amber, patchouli, and musk in the base close things down in a warm, earthy direction that suits the herbal opening well. A coherent, well-structured masculine that moves logically from cool to warm over its wear time.
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.