Boss The Scent
Boss The Scent opens with a jolt of ginger heat softened by bergamot, creating an immediate warmth that feels more tactile than citrus-bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather80
- Lavender70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Leather
- Ginger
- Leather
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBoss The Scent opens with a jolt of ginger heat softened by bergamot, creating an immediate warmth that feels more tactile than citrus-bright. The lavender in its center is oddly fleshy rather than herbaceous, almost bruised, as if pressed between warm skin and fabric. This isn't the clean aromatic lavender of classic men's cologne but something denser, slightly animalic.
The leather base emerges slowly, more suede than saddle, with none of the sharp birch-tar smokiness common to masculine leathers. Instead, it reads smooth and close, the sort of material that's been worn in. The whole composition stays near the skin, projecting subtle confidence rather than announcement.
This suits someone comfortable with restraint, who prefers scent as punctuation rather than statement. It wears easily from desk to dinner, modern without chasing trends, and works best in moderate temperatures where its warmth can unfold gradually.
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.
