So French
Apple and lemon create a crisp, slightly tart opening that feels more orchard than Mediterranean, while cardamom adds a cool green-spice lift that keeps the fruit from turning sugary.
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.
- Woody70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Tonka Bean
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readApple and lemon create a crisp, slightly tart opening that feels more orchard than Mediterranean, while cardamom adds a cool green-spice lift that keeps the fruit from turning sugary. The heart is dominated by nutmeg’s warm, woody spice, amplifying the cardamom and steering the composition toward a dry, aromatic masculinity rather than sweet freshness. Tonka bean arrives early in the dry-down, smoothing the spices with a soft almond-like coumarin sheen that clings close to skin skin. Cedar and patchouli provide a clean, blond wood foundation edged with light earthiness, extending wear without adding smoke or heft. Projection stays within conversational distance for about five hours before settling into a faint skin musk of sweet hay and shaved pencil wood.
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.
