Cambridge Knight
Lily and grapefruit open with a watery, slightly sappy freshness, the black currant adding a tart, leafy edge that veers green more than fruity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Lily
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Grapefruit
- Musk
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLily and grapefruit open with a watery, slightly sappy freshness, the black currant adding a tart, leafy edge that veers green more than fruity. The musk listed up top reads as a clean shimmer rather than skin warmth.
Guaiac wood and jasmine bridge the middle into something darker and smokier, the guaiac giving a faint tarry undertone while jasmine keeps it from going too dry. The contrast between green-bright top and smoke-tinted heart is the most interesting move.
Oakmoss, cedar, and patchouli land a chypre-leaning drydown, dry and slightly bitter rather than plush. Projects modestly. A cool-shoulder-season men's fresh-woody, more thoughtful than the name suggests, comfortable at the office.
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.
