Dirty English for Men
The opening arrives with cardamom-laced bergamot cutting through a veil of raw cedar—less polished gentleman, more workshop at dawn.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Animalic50
- Powdery50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives with cardamom-laced bergamot cutting through a veil of raw cedar—less polished gentleman, more workshop at dawn. Within minutes, leather emerges not as saddle-buffed smoothness but something closer to worn jackets and tool belts, grounded by vetiver's green earthiness and a persistent cedar backbone that refuses to soften.
The base settles into a mossy, resinous shadow where oakmoss and amber create a warm, slightly animalic foundation. The oud here reads as woody darkness rather than barnyard intensity, lending weight without overwhelming the composition's underlying ruggedness.
Despite its name, this leans more toward clean-edged masculinity than actual dirt—think sawdust and stone rather than soil. It occupies an accessible middle ground between department store ease and niche ambition, suited to anyone seeking presence without aggression.
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.
