Empire Gold
Grapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, juicy snap that quickly picks up a cool marine breeze, the two citrus oils sheared into something almost salty by the listed marine accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Sage
- Leather
- Papyrus
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, juicy snap that quickly picks up a cool marine breeze, the two citrus oils sheared into something almost salty by the listed marine accord. Mint and clary sage land next, their green edges sharpening the composition while a faint bamboo note keeps the heart airy rather than leafy. As the top fizzles out, papyrus adds a dry, paper-like wood that steers the scent toward a sleek, matte leather base; the leather is thin, modern, and lightly salted rather than smoky or honeyed. Wear time settles to a quiet skin-level hum where the marine tang still glints off the subdued hide. Projection stays within arm’s length; the overall effect is a crisp, office-ready riff on aquatic leather that feels best on warm spring days and casual Fridays.
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.