Hyde
Hyde won an Art and Olfaction award in 2019, and the reasons are evident from the first spray.
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.
- Mossy70
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Birch Tar
- Cassie
- Oakmoss
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readHyde won an Art and Olfaction award in 2019, and the reasons are evident from the first spray. Lemon and bergamot open brightly — Hiram Green works exclusively with natural materials, and the citrus here is clean and vivid. The heart is the revelation: birch tar brings a cold, leathery smokiness while cassie — a relative of acacia, intensely green and faintly floral — creates a counterpoint that registers as almost botanical rather than conventionally olfactory.
Labdanum, vanilla, and oakmoss build the base into a warm, resinous, earthy foundation that reads distinctly chypre: the classical structure in modern, entirely natural form. This is perfumery as craft.
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.
