Avant Garde
The grapefruit and bergamot opening of Avant Garde is brief — a clearing of the air before the fragrance reveals what it actually wants to be.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Tobacco80
- Amber70
- Vanilla45
- Chocolate
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readThe grapefruit and bergamot opening of Avant Garde is brief — a clearing of the air before the fragrance reveals what it actually wants to be. Incense and tobacco arrive in the heart, not aggressively but with a kind of self-possession, the sort of pairing that has worked in masculine perfumery for a reason. Tonka bean and ambergris close things out, the dry-down rich with cocoa and heliotrope undertones that soften the smoke without erasing it.
This is a confident, unfussy fragrance for someone uninterested in trend.
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.