Trajan
The opening is a juicy citrus burst, blood orange and lemon lifted by bergamot for a bright, slightly bitter introduction with real sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Citrus70
- Aromatic60
- Lavender60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Lavender
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a juicy citrus burst, blood orange and lemon lifted by bergamot for a bright, slightly bitter introduction with real sparkle.
Sage and lavender push the middle into aromatic territory, dry herbal warmth threading through while a single saffron line adds a leathery hum that keeps the centre from feeling generic. The bridge from citrus to herbs feels seamless rather than abrupt.
Oakmoss, ambergris and cedar build a refined chypre-style base, mineral and faintly leather-tinged, with the moss giving real shadow underneath. Overall the character is a polished aromatic chypre, dignified rather than flashy, suited to office or evening wear in cooler weather where the moss reads fullest.
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.
