Icon
The opening is a sharp, peppery citrus that's more bitter than bright—petitgrain's green edge cutting through any sweetness, black pepper adding a dry heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Black Pepper
- Sage
- Cardamom
- Oakmoss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a sharp, peppery citrus that's more bitter than bright—petitgrain's green edge cutting through any sweetness, black pepper adding a dry heat. Within minutes, cardamom brings a smoky warmth while sage introduces an herbal coolness, creating a tension that keeps the fragrance from settling into predictability.
The base reveals Dunhill's tailoring instincts: leather worn smooth rather than aggressively animalic, iris lending a faint powdery restraint, vetiver and oakmoss providing the structure. Oud appears as accent rather than statement, a woody depth that doesn't shout its presence. The overall effect is contained and deliberately masculine, reminiscent of well-made menswear—pressed but not stiff.
Icon works for someone who wants presence without announcement, a fragrance that suggests capability rather than charm. It skews formal, best suited to environments where refinement is noticed but not discussed.
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.
