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 11 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.
- Oakmoss65
- Lavender60
- Bergamot50
- Vetiver50
- Sandalwood40
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.
