Insense Ultramarine
The opening is bracingly green—galbanum sharpened by cassis and a menthol-cool blast of mint that announces itself without hesitation.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Sage
- Magnolia
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bracingly green—galbanum sharpened by cassis and a menthol-cool blast of mint that announces itself without hesitation. This is the aromatic freshness of the mid-nineties, before aquatics became wallpaper, when green still meant something angular and deliberate. The mint doesn't fade so much as it settles into sage and cardamom, adding warmth without sacrificing the crisp edges.
As it dries down, vetiver and cedar provide a clean, woody foundation that keeps the composition from floating away entirely. There's a faint tobacco presence in the base—enough to anchor but not enough to turn this into something smoked or heavy. The overall effect is clarifying rather than complex, a scent that feels like cold water and open air.
Insensé Ultramarine works for those who want freshness with some character, something that reads as intentionally green rather than merely clean. It's straightforward in the best sense—legible, unsentimental, and still distinct decades later.
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.
