Friday Edition
The opening hits with cardamom sharpness against bergamot, while anise threads a faintly licorice note through the citrus.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Mint
- Sage
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening hits with cardamom sharpness against bergamot, while anise threads a faintly licorice note through the citrus. It's an unusual opening — spiced but not warm, bright but not fresh in any conventional sense.
Mint, sage, and lavender form the heart, giving the composition a herbal, almost medicinal clarity. The trio works together cleanly, each reinforcing the others. Clary sage in particular adds a slightly woody, dry edge that keeps the lavender from going soapy.
Tonka bean and sandalwood in the base provide a gentle sweetness that rounds out the herbal sharpness without overwhelming it. The result is a composed, aromatic masculine with a slightly retro sensibility.
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.
