Gendarme
A spare, retro-feeling masculine that opens on a lemon peel rubbed against thyme — bright, herbal, almost barbershop.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Thyme
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readA spare, retro-feeling masculine that opens on a lemon peel rubbed against thyme — bright, herbal, almost barbershop. The citrus is brief and clean rather than juicy.
The heart pivots quickly into a smoky church-incense tinged with jasmine, the floral keeping the resin from going austere. There is a thin, dry quality through the centre, like air around a warm censer, with thyme threading green-bitter underneath.
The base is where the character settles: a soft, well-worn leather cured in low smoke, with a faint animalic lift. It reads as a tailored, slightly priestly composition — citrus and incense up top, leather and quiet smoulder beneath. Distinctive but understated, more about texture than projection.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
