Guess 1981 for Men
Bergamot and violet leaf open this with a cool, slightly green citrus freshness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
- Cedar
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and violet leaf open this with a cool, slightly green citrus freshness. The violet leaf contributes a watery, cut-stem quality that stops the bergamot from going too sweet. Projection at this stage is moderate.
Oakmoss and ambergris emerge in the heart, giving the composition a mossy, slightly marine quality with some resinous weight. Cedar sharpens the woody structure without going dry. Frankincense then begins to build underneath, adding a faint balsamic lift.
Leather in the base is the defining character — smooth rather than rugged, sitting on top of the frankincense resin. The overall drydown is an amber-leather construction with green moss framing it. Cool-weather formal wear with a classical structure.
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.
