Extreme Story
Extreme Story opens on a single bergamot streak before tipping into an unusually floral heart for a leather-coded masculine.
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.
- Leather65
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Peony
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readExtreme Story opens on a single bergamot streak before tipping into an unusually floral heart for a leather-coded masculine. Lavender sits above peony, violet, cardamom, and rose — a bouquet, dressed up in a stiff jacket.
The base is where the title earns its keep. Leather, vetiver, patchouli, and amber pull the floral heart down into something darker and drier; the leather reads more synthetic-suede than tanned hide, but it carries the composition.
The overall arc is a designer-style floral leather worn confidently linear — bright at the start, quietly assertive after an hour, and recognisably built to echo a major house's signature.
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.




