Gentleman Eau de Toilette Intense
The Gentleman line's modern era is defined by iris — not the buttery, powdery orris root of older French perfumery but something colder and more structural.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Iris75
- Powdery60
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe Gentleman line's modern era is defined by iris — not the buttery, powdery orris root of older French perfumery but something colder and more structural. In the Intense, cardamom and basil frame the opening with an aromatic spice that reads as a quiet intensification rather than a separate topnote; bergamot lifts the whole accord without sweetening it.
Iris in the heart is the fulcrum — dry, slightly vegetal, that characteristically cool facet halfway between powder and chalk. Cedar in the base anchors the iris without warmth, keeping the drydown linear and precise.
A fragrance that privileges understatement. Projects moderately, wears close, earns its name by intensity of character rather than volume.
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.
