Eight Bob
Eight & Bob opens with a citrus snap—bergamot and lemon—tempered by the dry warmth of cardamom and ginger.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Amber55
- Patchouli50
- Vanilla40
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Labdanum
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readEight & Bob opens with a citrus snap—bergamot and lemon—tempered by the dry warmth of cardamom and ginger. The brightness lasts only briefly before settling into something more composed and woody. There's a smoky quality to the heart, where guaiac and cedar create a pencil-shaving dryness, softened slightly by hazelnut's subtle roundness and labdanum's resinous depth.
The base pulls everything into a quieter register. Sandalwood and patchouli provide a creamy, earthy foundation, while vanilla adds just enough sweetness to keep the woods from feeling austere. Ambergris lends a faint salinity that hovers at the edges. The overall impression is masculine without being loud—polished woods and restrained spice, the kind of scent that works equally well in a boardroom or a bookshop. It feels considered, like someone who doesn't need to announce themselves but leaves a trace worth remembering.
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.



