Homme de Gres
Petitgrain, basil, lemon and bergamot open with a sharp green-citrus burst, the basil adding an anise-tinged herbal edge and petitgrain bringing its slightly bitter twig-and-leaf character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic70
- Mossy70
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain, basil, lemon and bergamot open with a sharp green-citrus burst, the basil adding an anise-tinged herbal edge and petitgrain bringing its slightly bitter twig-and-leaf character.
The heart turns warmer. Neroli softens the citrus into honey, jasmine adds a quiet indolic depth, and labdanum and benzoin start building amber resinous warmth from the middle, with peach lending a faint fuzzy sweetness underneath.
The base of sandalwood, oakmoss, amber and musk lands the composition in classic chypre-amber territory. Oakmoss provides bitter green-earthy depth, amber and labdanum together create a resinous warmth, sandalwood smooths the edges, and musk diffuses everything outward. A polished masculine aromatic with chypre underpinnings, suited to cool weather and evening or office wear.
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.
