Arden Men Sandalwood
Petitgrain, lavender, and citrus open in a clean aromatic accord — clary sage adds a slightly herbal, camphoraceous edge that keeps the opening from reading as simply fresh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy80
- Balsamic60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Sandalwood
- Basil
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain, lavender, and citrus open in a clean aromatic accord — clary sage adds a slightly herbal, camphoraceous edge that keeps the opening from reading as simply fresh. The combination is structured and purposeful, typical of a classic masculine fougère framework.
Sandalwood, vetiver, and cedar anchor the heart with dry woody depth, while basil and patchouli introduce green, slightly earthy texture. The base arrives with real complexity: oakmoss, labdanum, and amber build a dense, resinous warmth that is distinctly vintage in character.
Tonka bean softens the edges without pushing into gourmand territory. This is a fougère-adjacent composition with substantial balsamic-mossy depth, reading warmer and richer than modern interpretations of this style.
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.
