Sleight of Fern
Lavender and fig open with an unexpected tenderness—green, milky sweetness softened by aromatic herbs rather than sharpened by citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Lavender80
- Mossy80
- Tuberose70
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Fig
- Tuberose
- Narcissus
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and fig open with an unexpected tenderness—green, milky sweetness softened by aromatic herbs rather than sharpened by citrus. The composition quickly reveals its classical backbone: narcissus and tuberose bring a honeyed, slightly indolic richness that transforms the opening from pastoral to something more ambiguous and charged.
The base anchors everything in oakmoss and patchouli, nodding to fougère tradition, but birch and tonka add a leathery-sweet duality that keeps the finish from feeling straightforward. The sandalwood rounds the edges without dominating.
This is a fougère that plays with its own genre—familiar enough to recognize, skewed enough to surprise. It suits someone drawn to green scents but wary of barbershop nostalgia, seeking something that feels both rooted and slightly off-center.
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.
