Mat
Mat is a cool-minimalist floral-woody from the mid-2000s, built around an abstract iris-lily accord that reads more texture than bouquet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Iris55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Bamboo
- Mint
- Jasmine
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMat is a cool-minimalist floral-woody from the mid-2000s, built around an abstract iris-lily accord that reads more texture than bouquet. The opening is quiet — a pale freesia, a green note, a hint of pink pepper — never bright, never aromatic.
The heart sits in iris-lily-of-the-valley territory but with a synthetic white-woods backbone, almost pharmaceutical in its cleanness. The drydown is a soft cashmeran-musk base that stays close and lingers for hours. Projection is deliberately low. This is a fragrance for people who don't want a fragrance to announce itself — introverted, architectural, best in shoulder-season weather and under clean minimal clothing. A niche choice that rarely gets credit for its restraint.
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.
