Cedrat Boise
The opening is a bright collision of cassis and bergamot that lasts barely a minute before the cedar rushes in—dry, almost papery, with a synthetic clarity that some find refreshing and others find clinical.
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.
- Cedar90
- Musk60
- Leather50
- Bergamot40
- Vanilla40
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a bright collision of cassis and bergamot that lasts barely a minute before the cedar rushes in—dry, almost papery, with a synthetic clarity that some find refreshing and others find clinical. This is not a soft woody fragrance. The cedar dominates throughout, braced by a leather accord that reads more as a taut, soapy musk than actual hide.
As it settles, vanilla and sandalwood try to smooth the edges, but the composition remains angular. The moss and musk in the base give it a clean, almost detergent-like radiance that projects forcefully for hours.
Cedrat Boise works for those who want a woody scent that announces itself without apology—office-safe but unmistakable. It favors volume over nuance, and that bluntness is precisely its appeal. Best in moderate weather when you need presence without heaviness.
