287 E. Marinella
Lavender and clary sage make for a herbaceous, slightly camphorous opening — aromatic in the traditional sense, with lavender's familiar floral-herbal quality tempered by clary sage's earthier, slightly wine-like character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Herbal60
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Clary Sage
- Black Pepper
- Guaiac Wood
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and clary sage make for a herbaceous, slightly camphorous opening — aromatic in the traditional sense, with lavender's familiar floral-herbal quality tempered by clary sage's earthier, slightly wine-like character. The two notes work in the same register and reinforce each other.
Ambergris, cedar, and musk close the composition. Ambergris — warm, sea-edged, slightly animalic — integrates with the dry cedar and a smooth musk to create a base that's warmer than the herbal opening would suggest. The transition from cool herb to warm ambergris is the main point of interest. A classically structured masculine composition with restrained projection and clean execution.
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.
