From the Garden
The opening is unapologetically green—crushed tomato stems still damp from the vine, a sharp vegetal brightness that feels more kitchen garden than perfumery.
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.
- Patchouli75
- Green65
- Vetiver15
- Oakmoss15
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unapologetically green—crushed tomato stems still damp from the vine, a sharp vegetal brightness that feels more kitchen garden than perfumery. There's an almost mineral quality here, like wet concrete after rain, grounding what could have been a simple salad-bar novelty.
As it settles, the patchouli emerges not as hippie incense but as dark, turned earth. The contrast works: living plant above, decomposing matter below. The tomato leaf never fully disappears; it hovers as a persistent green hum beneath the earthiness.
This wears close and a bit severe, best suited to those who find beauty in compost heaps and prefer their scents to smell like actual things rather than ideas about things. Unisex by necessity—few florals here to soften the edges.