Onsen
Onsen assembles a spare collection of coastal and herbal materials: bergamot provides a citrus entry point, while tarragon and thyme push it immediately into aromatic-green territory.
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.
- Marine80
- Mossy60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Oakmoss
- Marine
- Tarragon
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Thyme
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readOnsen assembles a spare collection of coastal and herbal materials: bergamot provides a citrus entry point, while tarragon and thyme push it immediately into aromatic-green territory. The marine accord is present from the start, carrying a mineral saltiness rather than a synthetic aquatic freshness.
Oakmoss adds a damp, slightly earthy underpinning, and vetiver reinforces the mossy-green direction. Ambergris smooths the drydown without sweetening it, lending the base a subtle animalic warmth.
The composition reads as a meditative, slightly austere take on a marine-aromatic. It wears close to skin and projects quietly — better suited to reflective, outdoor moments than crowded social settings.
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.
