Sailor Stories
Lemon and bergamot open with a sharp, sun-bleached citrus snap that feels like deck planks heated at noon.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Oakmoss
- Seaweed
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a sharp, sun-bleached citrus snap that feels like deck planks heated at noon. Jasmine arrives quickly, folding its indolic sweetness into the tart peel, softening the edges without turning creamy. The base shifts the narrative to salt-stained leather wrapped in damp oakmoss and dried seaweed, creating a briny, iodine-tinged skin scent that recalls rope coiled on wet wood. Over hours the citrus fades, letting the marine leather accord dominate while a quiet mossy hum keeps the composition dry rather than aquatic. Projection stays within arm’s length for roughly six hours, perfect for breezy spring docks or late-summer rooftop drinks.
Scent twins
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