Success MCM 1986 Eau de Toilette
Honey dominates the opening, thick and waxy, pressed against bright bergamot and lemon so the citrus reads like candied peel rather than sparkle.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Honey90
- Tobacco70
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Honey
- Orange
- Tobacco
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readHoney dominates the opening, thick and waxy, pressed against bright bergamot and lemon so the citrus reads like candied peel rather than sparkle. A sweet tobacco leaf folds in quickly, its hay-like dryness cutting the sugar while rose gives a faintly sour-petal lift. Vetiver and patchouli arrive together in the heart, earthy and slightly smoky, pulling the composition toward a dry woods accord; iris dusts the centre with cool powder, keeping the honey from turning sticky. As the base settles, moss and leather firm the structure, benzoin and vanilla re-heat the amber glow, and a second honey pass echoes the top, now darker, musky, almost pipe-tobacco. Projection stays chest-level for six hours, leaving a warm, bittersweet trail that feels most natural under a cool fall jacket or winter coat.
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.
