Sandalwood Cologne
An old-school sandalwood cologne in the British barbershop tradition.
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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.
- Woody60
- Lavender55
- Aromatic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readAn old-school sandalwood cologne in the British barbershop tradition. Lavender, lemon, and bergamot open with that classic clean-shave brightness — sage adding a green-aromatic edge — before the heart steps in with rose, jasmine, and tonka, softened rather than florid.
The base is where it earns its name: sandalwood threaded with leather, amber, vanilla, and patchouli — warm, dry, faintly resinous, the kind of dry-down that sits close to a starched collar. Best in cool weather, on someone who wants to smell groomed rather than announced. Heritage masculine that doesn't need to update itself.
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.



