Malte Bourbon
Grapefruit slices through the opening with a bitter-citrus edge that cardamom immediately warms, creating a bright but spiced introduction.
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.
- Leather70
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Tobacco
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit slices through the opening with a bitter-citrus edge that cardamom immediately warms, creating a bright but spiced introduction. The heart adds ginger's sharp heat folding into dry tobacco leaf while iris powders the transition, softening the spices into a suede-smooth floral heart. Leather emerges early in the base, picking up the tobacco's smokiness and pulling it darker; patchouli and coffee give earthy depth, violet keeps a cool floral lift, and amber bathes everything in a resinous glow that lasts for hours. Sillage radiates about arm's length for the first three hours before settling closer to skin, making it office-friendly yet present through evening. Cool autumn nights and leather-jacket weather showcase its balance between fresh sparkle and smoky leather warmth.
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.
