Arsene Lupin Dandy
Arsène Lupin Dandy is a tight composition, more sketch than tableau.
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.
- Woody70
- Smoky60
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Olibanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readArsène Lupin Dandy is a tight composition, more sketch than tableau. Bergamot opens it briefly, then pink pepper and cardamom take over — the pepper crisp rather than hot, the cardamom dry and a little rooty.
The base is where the piece settles: sandalwood as a creamy anchor, olibanum lending a dry resinous coolness, patchouli grounding everything in earth. There is no floral phase, no sweet phase — the composition stays dry, spicy, and woody from heart to drydown.
The overall effect is restrained and a touch ceremonial — the kind of fragrance that wears better in a quiet room than a crowded one. Cool weather, evening, formal.
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.
