No. 01
Sage opens dry and resinous, its bitter-green edge immediately dusted with cardamom’s cool spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Lavender60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lavender
- Thyme
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readSage opens dry and resinous, its bitter-green edge immediately dusted with cardamom’s cool spice. Lavender and thyme arrive together, the lavender softening the herbs’ rough camph while thyme keeps the structure taut, creating an aromatic heart that feels more medicinal than floral. Benzoin slowly warms the leather base, turning the composition from crisp green-aromatic to a honeyed leather that clings like worn suede. The dry-down stays close, a soft-spoken skin scent where sweet resin muffles any animalic growl the leather might have had. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours then collapses to the wrist, making it office-appropriate yet quietly sensual. Best in cool weather when the aromatic top can still snap before the benzoin melts.
Scent twins
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