Absinthe Boréale
Cool lemon and a clean herbal lavender open in tandem, the citrus reading as a peel-zest brightener rather than a juice.
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.
- Mossy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Oakmoss
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCool lemon and a clean herbal lavender open in tandem, the citrus reading as a peel-zest brightener rather than a juice. There is an immediate sense of cold air, something almost mentholated in the lavender's lift.
The lavender holds the centre, dry and slightly camphorous, with the oakmoss thickening underneath into a damp green-grey shadow. Musk threads through quietly, keeping the texture soft instead of soapy.
The finish is mossy and skin-close, the lavender mellowing into a powdered herbal hush against the musk. The overall arc is straightforward and aromatic, a clean shaving-water shape with a darker green undertow rather than a sharp fougère snap.
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.