Chypre Silver
Lemon and bergamot flash bright and sour against a dry cardamom crackle, setting up a spare citrus-herbal frame.
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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Thyme
- Cardamom
- Galbanum
- Leather
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot flash bright and sour against a dry cardamom crackle, setting up a spare citrus-herbal frame. Galbanum enters early, pushing a sharp green resin through the opening citrics, its bitter leafiness scrubbing sweetness away. Patchouli and labdanum thicken the heart, adding earthy tobacco tones that mute the green without turning sweet. Leather arrives late, a matte hide that absorbs the remaining citrus oils and folds galbanum’s resin into a dry, smoky skin accord. Benzoin lends a quiet amber glow underneath, warming but never softening the austere profile. Projection stays polite, creating a scent bubble no wider than arm’s length, perfect for office or spring daytime wear. Eight-hour longevity, minimal evolution; the fragrance keeps its chiseled chypre character from start to finish.
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.
