Dune Road
The composition opens immediately into a salty marine accord — calone-style ocean air with a hint of mineral wetness.
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.
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Marine
- Vetiver
- Cardamom
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe composition opens immediately into a salty marine accord — calone-style ocean air with a hint of mineral wetness. There's no citrus or floral entry; the sea is the introduction.
Vetiver builds the heart with a smoky-earthy underline, the kind of vetiver that suggests damp roots more than dry grass. Cardamom adds a quiet green-spicy thread, lifting the marine accord without warming it significantly. The development stays cool and atmospheric.
Musk closes the base with a clean transparent finish that lets the marine and vetiver do the work. The drydown is a salty ocean-vetiver, projecting close and lasting moderately. The whole thing reads as a coastal walk in cool weather — minimalist, focused, and cleanly built around the marine-and-root pairing.
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.
