Sous le Vent
Sous le Vent opens with a herbal brightness — bergamot flanked by tarragon and lavender — that places it firmly in the pre-war French tradition of aromatic fougères.
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.
- Floral55
- Aromatic50
- Iris50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Tarragon
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readSous le Vent opens with a herbal brightness — bergamot flanked by tarragon and lavender — that places it firmly in the pre-war French tradition of aromatic fougères. The heart introduces jasmine alongside carnation and a green note, creating a spiced floral character that is unusual by contemporary standards but anchored in 1930s perfumery convention. The base is spare in official listings — iris, woody and earthy notes — though bottles in their original formulation reportedly carry a fuller animalic base with oakmoss and vetiver, before IFRA restrictions changed what could be used. This is a fragrance for collectors and those drawn to the historical record; its register is decisively vintage rather than versatile.
Scent twins
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