Quasar
In 1994, Christopher Sheldrake — who would later become Chanel's exclusive perfumer — designed Quasar for the Spanish house Jesus del Pozo.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy65
- Lavender55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Banana
- Banana Leaf
- Sage
- Sage
- Lavender
- Lavender
- Rosemary
By the editors · 2 min readIn 1994, Christopher Sheldrake — who would later become Chanel's exclusive perfumer — designed Quasar for the Spanish house Jesus del Pozo. The result is a time-stamped curiosity: banana and banana leaf in the top notes, a genuinely unusual opening that smells tropical and slightly candied before the composition rapidly transforms. The fruit burns off to reveal the fougère structure underneath: lavender, sage, rosemary, and geranium form a herbal, aromatic heart that feels more classical than the opening suggested.
The base is oakmoss-forward — cedar, patchouli, and sandalwood providing depth behind the green, slightly mossy character. This is a 1990s fougère made distinctive by an outsider opening accord. The banana reads as playful rather than eccentric at this distance; what remains in the base is a well-structured wood-and-moss masculine that wears with easy confidence.
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.
