This Is Not A Blue Bottle 1.4
Lavender and cardamom open with an aromatic, faintly medicinal edge that shifts quickly as the heart notes take hold.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Ylang-Ylang
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and cardamom open with an aromatic, faintly medicinal edge that shifts quickly as the heart notes take hold. Ylang-ylang introduces a heady floral richness, while tonka bean and benzoin begin to build a thick, resinous sweetness underneath.
Labdanum and opoponax deepen the base into a dark, honeyed amber, with patchouli adding an earthy counterpoint that prevents the whole from becoming cloying. The overall effect is dense and balsamic — a slow-moving, enveloping composition that leans toward cool-weather wear. Transitions are gradual, making this one of the more evolving structures in its category. Sillage is substantial; projection fills a room without effort.
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.
