Upscale Gentleman
Apple, lavender, clove and cardamom open with a fresh-spicy aromatic top that signals masculine fougère intent from the first minute.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lavender
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Sage
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readApple, lavender, clove and cardamom open with a fresh-spicy aromatic top that signals masculine fougère intent from the first minute. The apple keeps things accessible, the clove and cardamom add interest.
Sage and guaiac wood form a sparse herbal-woody heart. Sage continues the aromatic thread from the opening, and guaiac begins to push the composition toward dry, slightly smoky wood. The middle is short and clean, with no floral interruption.
Tonka, cedar, patchouli and musk close things out. Tonka warms with coumarin sweetness, cedar adds dry structure, patchouli reads modern-clean, and musk smooths. Overall the arc is a polite, well-mannered modern fougère with a soft spiced top — designed for office and date rather than ceremony.
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.
