Dirty
**Dirty** opens with a jolt of mint so sharp it nearly stings, backed by green herbs that smell like crushing fresh tarragon and thyme between your fingers.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Green70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Peppermint
- Lavender
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min read**Dirty** opens with a jolt of mint so sharp it nearly stings, backed by green herbs that smell like crushing fresh tarragon and thyme between your fingers. The effect is immediate and literal—this is the scent of stepping into a garden after rain, hands coated in soil and sap. Unlike most fragrances that gesture vaguely at "freshness," Dirty commits to its premise with botanical precision.
As it settles, sandalwood emerges alongside quieter lavender, softening the initial green shock into something more balanced but never polite. The earthiness persists throughout, grounded and vegetal rather than sweet or powdery. This is Lush translating its shower gel aesthetic into perfume: unapologetically direct, more interested in recreation than abstraction.
Best suited to those who find conventional fresh scents too cleaned-up or synthetic. Dirty wears close to the skin and fades relatively quickly, maintaining its herbal character until the end without morphing into something else entirely.
Scent twins
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