White Tea
The opening is fresh and herbal, clary sage lending a subtle medicinal coolness rather than classic cologne brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Clary Sage
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Tonka Bean
- Mandarin
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is fresh and herbal, clary sage lending a subtle medicinal coolness rather than classic cologne brightness. It feels deliberate, almost austere—white tea rendered through suggestion rather than literal mimicry. The effect is clean but not soapy, calm without being bland.
As it settles, tonka bean softens the edges with a faint sweetness, while amber adds just enough warmth to keep the composition from turning too sharp. The drydown hovers in that middle zone between skin scent and something distinctly there, a quiet presence rather than a statement.
Best suited to those who want fragrance without theater. It works for offices, early mornings, or anyone allergic to loud florals and heavy musks. The kind of thing you wear when you want to smell intentional but not discussed.
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.
