Cuir Mythique
Galbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that throws iris-resin shadows across iris’s cool, chalky root.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Galbanum
- Iris
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum slashes first, a bitter-green blade that throws iris-resin shadows across iris’s cool, chalky root. Ginger sparks immediately after, its citrus-heat lifting the galbanum’s bite while softening iris into suede-like powder. The iris heart stays tight: no florals, just root and resin cooled by spicy lift. Leather arrives dry and matte, pulling the green-iris accord into something like weathered hide rubbed with talc. Hours in, the leather relaxes, letting iris’s doughy facet exhale a quiet, skin-warmed musk that smokes rather than projects. Projection stays arm-length, perfect for cool days when you want discreet edge rather than statement.
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.
