Coriolan
Coriolan is Guerlain's late-1990s aromatic leather — a masculin that names itself after Shakespeare's Roman general and delivers accordingly.
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.
- Leather55
- Oakmoss55
- Vetiver50
- Patchouli45
- Bergamot35
By the editors · 2 min readCoriolan is Guerlain's late-1990s aromatic leather — a masculin that names itself after Shakespeare's Roman general and delivers accordingly. Petitgrain, sage, neroli, lemon, and bergamot open with a citrus-herbal brightness that dissipates quickly before fennel and nutmeg take the heart: unusual, slightly anisic, medicinal at the edges in the way that only a genuinely confident composition would allow.
Oakmoss, leather, vetiver, benzoin, and patchouli in the base are the long game — a deep, resinous-earthy foundation that builds and darkens with wear. Firmly masculine, deliberately austere, unapologetically old-school. For those who find modern fragrances too polished.
