Cotton Club
Lavender and bergamot open brisk, the lavender carrying a clean, slightly metallic edge that the citrus sharpens rather than softens.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and bergamot open brisk, the lavender carrying a clean, slightly metallic edge that the citrus sharpens rather than softens. Lily-of-the-valley enters early, adding a cool, watery green floral that keeps the heart thin and airy. Sandalwood arrives first in the base, its pale creaminess briefly bridging to the white blossom before patchouli’s dry earth and cedar’s pencil-shaving austerity pull the scent back to matte woods. Musk fluffs the final trail, stopping the woods from turning brittle and lending a freshly laundered cotton effect that explains the name. Projection stays polite, a soft woody-fresh envelope perfect for office days or warm spring weekends.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
