Halston 101
Lavender dominates the opening, projecting a cool, medicinal edge that immediately announces its masculine barbershop lineage.
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.
- Lavender70
- Leather70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Amber
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, projecting a cool, medicinal edge that immediately announces its masculine barbershop lineage. Bergamot adds a brief citrus sparkle, yet the clary sage quickly steers the accord toward an earthy, slightly bitter aromatic core that feels both dry and quietly leathery. As the heart settles, Virginia cedar amplifies the woodiness while the leather accord emerges as a matte, suede-like panel stretched over the frame. Amber gradually warms the base, softening the cedar’s pencil-shaving sharpness and letting the musk diffuse the composition into a clean, skin-warm hum that stays close to skin. Projection rides at arm’s length for the first three hours before collapsing into a subtle cedar-musk skin scent that endures through a workday.
Scent twins
In this family
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