Habanita La Cologne
The cologne interpretation of Habanita trades density for airiness without abandoning the original's lineage.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Rosewood
- Ylang-Ylang
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe cologne interpretation of Habanita trades density for airiness without abandoning the original's lineage. Lemon and bergamot run through a fresh, bright opening; nutmeg adds a spice note that prevents it from reading as simply clean. The heart builds around ylang-ylang and rosewood — the same heady floral register as the EDP but lifted by violet, giving the composition a softer, more wearable skin through the day.
The base retains vetiver and oakmoss, the heritage anchor that keeps this recognizably Molinard, though the amber here is lighter and less resinous than the EDP's foundation. It wears shorter and closer to the skin, appropriate for daytime and warmer months where a full oriental would overwhelm. A bridge between the original and something contemporary.
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.
