Special 127
An old aromatic cologne in the strict sense: petitgrain and lavender braided into orange and bergamot at the top, with no concession to modern brightness.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAn old aromatic cologne in the strict sense: petitgrain and lavender braided into orange and bergamot at the top, with no concession to modern brightness. The opening is dry, slightly bitter, and shorter than its descendants tend to be.
The heart's neroli, ylang-ylang and rose lift the green-citrus top into a proper floral cologne register, and the base — patchouli and musk only — is sparse by current standards. That sparseness is the point: the dry-down doesn't try to be a chypre or a fougère, it lets the heart do the work and finishes quietly. Wears in close, fades over a half-day, and reads exactly as the style of cologne that men used to put on after shaving and forget about.
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.
