Cedre
Cedre starts with a clean lemon-sage handshake, sharp but never piercing — sage gives the citrus a dry, almost soapy edge that warns you this won't be a simple cologne.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lemon
- Cinnamon
- Cedar
- Atlas Cedar
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readCedre starts with a clean lemon-sage handshake, sharp but never piercing — sage gives the citrus a dry, almost soapy edge that warns you this won't be a simple cologne. A dusting of cinnamon arrives quickly, faint enough to read as warmth rather than spice, threading the top into the heart.
From there the perfume settles into its title. Two cedars layer up — the pencil-shavings dryness of Atlas, the smoother Virginia softness — and they hold for hours. The base gestures faintly toward animal warmth with ambergris and musk, but the wood is doing the work; the rest is just shadow. It's quiet, masculine-leaning, and unfussy — the kind of fragrance that reads as part of the wearer rather than something they put on.
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.
