Egypt
Egypt opens with a bright lemon peel flash that quickly settles into a cooler accord of lavender tempered by green, mineralic moss.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody70
- Lavender65
- Leather65
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Moss
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readEgypt opens with a bright lemon peel flash that quickly settles into a cooler accord of lavender tempered by green, mineralic moss. The citrus doesn't linger long—this is about what comes after. Within minutes, the warmth arrives: cardamom and nutmeg add a dry, spiced quality that never tips into sweetness, maintaining the fresh-scrubbed clarity of the opening.
The base transforms it into something altogether earthier. Sandalwood forms the foundation, but it's the leather and patchouli that give Egypt its character—a smooth, slightly dusty quality reminiscent of worn suede rather than polished hide. The progression is linear and deliberate, moving from bright to warm to grounded.
This suits someone who wants a clean aromatic fragrance with hidden depth, something presentable that reveals complexity only to those paying attention. It reads classic masculine without shouting it.
Scent twins
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