Wood Flake
Cedar opens dry and pencil-sharp, slicing through air with clean wood dust.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Woody90
- Smoky50
- Rose40
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens dry and pencil-sharp, slicing through air with clean wood dust. Vetiver arrives quickly, adding smoky grass that darkens the cedar while rose softens the edges with muted petals rather than overt bloom. The heart transition turns the scent from splintered lumber to smoldering campfire as sandalwood and guaiac stack warm creaminess over still-present cedar. Vanilla folds quietly into the embers, sweetening smoke without turning edible, while musk blurs the woods into a skin-warmed haze that lasts. Projection stays within arm’s reach for seven hours, projecting quiet confidence rather than announcement. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual offices suit its restrained wood narrative best.
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.