Sel Marin
Lemon and bergamot open bright and clean, sharp without being sweet — the bergamot tilting the citrus toward bitterness rather than candied lift.
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.
- Mossy80
- Leather70
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Moss
- Leather
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open bright and clean, sharp without being sweet — the bergamot tilting the citrus toward bitterness rather than candied lift. The opening reads cologne-like in its transparency.
Moss arrives in the heart with surprising weight — damp, green, slightly oceanic, lending a mineral coolness that bridges the citrus into the smoky leather base. Leather underneath is dry rather than animalic, paired with cedar's pencil-shaving woodiness and a clean musk that extends the trail. The drydown holds a salty-mossy-leather accord for hours, evoking sea-weathered driftwood and damp rope. Atmospheric and unusual — the chypre structure recast for coastal air rather than European forest.
Scent twins
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