Karl Hamburg Alster
A sharp mint opening cuts through immediately, carrying a cool, almost medicinal edge before the composition softens.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Sage
- Lavender
- Freesia
- Moss
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp mint opening cuts through immediately, carrying a cool, almost medicinal edge before the composition softens. Sage and lavender step in to bridge the gap between herb garden and barbershop, while freesia adds a quiet white-floral lift that keeps the heart from feeling too austere.
As the mossy base settles, the overall impression becomes rounder — green and slightly earthy underfoot, with musk holding things close to skin. Mandarin from the general listing offers a faint citrus brightness that never fully dominates.
The result is a clean, spare aromatic with herbal backbone. It reads outdoors and cool-weather without demanding attention.
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.
