Mon Numéro 4 2011
Lavender dominates the opening, projecting a clean, slightly metallic herbal edge that feels barbershop-bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Violet60
- Aromatic50
- Vanilla50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Lavender
- Vanilla
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Clary Sage
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, projecting a clean, slightly metallic herbal edge that feels barbershop-bright. Cardamom slips underneath, adding a cool, green-spicy lift that keeps the lavender from turning soapy. Within minutes the heart folds in violet, its powdery iris-like facet softening the aromatics and creating a muted grey-purple haze. Vanilla and tonka arrive early, wrapping the lavender-violet core in a warm, faintly sweet almond glaze that muffles projection and pulls the scent closer to skin. Leather emerges slowly as a supple, suede-like presence rather than a harsh tar; it rides on musk, giving a whisper of clean animalic depth that lingers through the dry-down. The result smells like a well-worn leather jacket stored in a cedar wardrobe sprinkled with lavender sachets. Expect moderate longevity, polite sillage, and a cool-weather profile suited to casual office wear or low-key evening events.
Scent twins
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