Sel Marin
Sel Marin is built around the sensation of salt air rather than a perfumer's approximation of it.
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.
- Salty70
- Marine65
- Earthy55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Moss
- Seagrass
- Sea Salt
- Birch
By the editors · 2 min readSel Marin is built around the sensation of salt air rather than a perfumer's approximation of it. Lemon and bergamot at the opening are tightly compressed — not the sweeping citrus of a sports fragrance but something more specific, the brightness that reads as shoreline light rather than fruit.
The base is dominated by vetiver, birch, and cedar — dry, slightly smoky materials that ground the marine impression without pulling it toward conventional wood territories. There's something almost arid about the overall texture, as though the salt has drawn the moisture out. It stays close to skin, linear and unhurried, best worn when you want something that suggests rather than announces.
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.
