No 89
Named for Floris's address at 89 Jermyn Street, this 1951 classic belongs to the British barbershop tradition — a lineage connecting Windsor Castle grooming rooms to Burlington Arcade storefronts.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy65
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readNamed for Floris's address at 89 Jermyn Street, this 1951 classic belongs to the British barbershop tradition — a lineage connecting Windsor Castle grooming rooms to Burlington Arcade storefronts. Petitgrain and lavender open crisply alongside bergamot, neroli, and orange; nutmeg adds just enough spiced warmth to keep it from reading as a simple cologne. The heart is spare — ylang-ylang and rose in service of the accord rather than as standalone stars.
The base is where the era shows most clearly: oakmoss provides depth and green earthiness alongside vetiver and cedar, with musk grounding the drydown. This is a restrained, grown-up masculine classic, unafraid of the fougère structure that dominated its decade and still holds up decades later as a study in proportion and understatement.
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.
