Ocean Leather
The opening is unexpectedly green—basil and violet create a cool, herbal shimmer that feels more garden than marina.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather70
- Earthy65
- Woody60
- Green
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Violet
- Sage
- Cedar
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unexpectedly green—basil and violet create a cool, herbal shimmer that feels more garden than marina. There's nothing obviously aquatic here; instead, the freshness comes from aromatic leaves brushed with dew, a violet note that hovers between floral and metallic.
As it settles, sage and cedar anchor the composition in dry, woody terrain, while leather begins to surface—supple rather than animalic, more saddle than jacket. The vetiver adds an earthy bitterness that keeps the leather from dominating, and nutmeg lends a subtle warmth without tipping into sweetness.
The result is less about ocean than about contrasts: vegetal freshness against worn leather, mineral coolness against spice. It wears close, shifts mood with skin chemistry, and suits those who prefer their marine references abstract and their leather underplayed.
Scent twins
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