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An almost-clean cologne built around a tight three-stage progression: lime, bergamot and clary sage at the top read crisp and slightly herbal, the kind of opening that wears like cold water on a warm morning.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Petitgrain
By the editors · 2 min readAn almost-clean cologne built around a tight three-stage progression: lime, bergamot and clary sage at the top read crisp and slightly herbal, the kind of opening that wears like cold water on a warm morning. Petitgrain and a small jasmine note carry the middle.
The base is the unusual move — ambergris and Virginia cedar where most aromatic colognes would push moss or leather. The result is a softer, drier finish than the opening promises, with musk smoothing the cedar's woody bite. It's a linear fragrance: what you smell in the first hour is essentially what you smell in the last. That makes it a good short-distance work scent rather than something with arc.
Scent twins
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