Harmattan
Lavender opens cool and camphoraceous, sliced by bergamot’s sharp citrus edge, creating an aromatic flash that feels almost alpine.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Ambroxan
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and camphoraceous, sliced by bergamot’s sharp citrus edge, creating an aromatic flash that feels almost alpine. Ambroxan’s clean, mineral musk lands next, sheathing the herbs in a translucent amber glow while pink pepper sparks a brief, papery heat that keeps the heart from turning creamy. As the aromatics fade, vetiver’s dry grass and patchouli’s chocolate-earth tandem pull the scent downward, letting a muted black-leather accord settle in like well-worn motorcycle gear stored in cedar. The dry-down stays lean: no sugar, no smoke, just soft spice over grey-green woods that hang close to the skin for hours. Projection remains polite, a low-hovering aura perfect for collar-up fall days or an open-collar evening when you want leather without shouting.
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.
