I Was Here
Lavender opens clean and camphoraceous, cutting a bright aromatic line across the skin before cedar arrives with its dry pencil-shaving edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cedar
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens clean and camphoraceous, cutting a bright aromatic line across the skin before cedar arrives with its dry pencil-shaving edge. The wood tangles with rose, letting the flower’s petal-cream sweetness soften the cedar’s austerity while keeping the structure crisp. Sandalwood slides in underneath, adding a buttery cream tone that blunts the cedar’s sharpness and lets the rose breathe. Amber warms the base, stretching the sandalwood’s cream into a faint honeyed glow, while musk keeps the finish skin-close and slightly salty so the lavender never fully disappears. Projection stays polite, perfect for office air-conditioning or spring cafés where you want presence without announcement.
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.