Stark
Stark opens crisp and aromatic — petitgrain and rosemary cut against citrus, with cardamom adding a green-spiced edge that keeps the top from going purely soapy.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Rosemary
- Orange
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readStark opens crisp and aromatic — petitgrain and rosemary cut against citrus, with cardamom adding a green-spiced edge that keeps the top from going purely soapy. The first impression is barbershop tidy, the kind of structured citrus-herbal that reads as morning-shaved.
A floral heart settles in fairly quickly: jasmine and rose softened by lily of the valley, propped up by sandalwood that pulls the composition toward something more rounded than the opening suggested.
The drydown is where the character lands — moss, vetiver, and musk hold the floor in a green-rooty register that nods at classic chypre construction without committing to the depth. It wears most naturally on cooler weekday mornings, more grooming staple than statement.
Scent twins
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