Cedar Essence
The opening is citrus-forward with grapefruit, bergamot, and lime, sharpened by ginger and cooled by mint.
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.
- Lavender65
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Mint
- Peppermint
- Lime
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is citrus-forward with grapefruit, bergamot, and lime, sharpened by ginger and cooled by mint. This combination reads clean and bright without feeling thin — the ginger keeps it from being purely aquatic-fresh.
Cardamom and lavender in the heart move things toward a classic aromatic fougère register. The lavender is not soft or sweet here; braced by the mint still lingering from the top, it stays structured and slightly herbal.
Coffee in the base adds a roasted bitterness that partners with cedar and amber into something drier and more grounded than the opening suggests. Patchouli stays quiet and earthy rather than dark. This is a daytime masculine-leaning fragrance with a well-defined arc from bright to dry.
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.
