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Cool violet leaf and bergamot meet a peppery crack on the opening, dry and slightly metallic, the kind of clean grey-green that earns the bottle's name in the first thirty seconds.
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.
- Smoky80
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Virginia Cedar
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Ambergris
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readCool violet leaf and bergamot meet a peppery crack on the opening, dry and slightly metallic, the kind of clean grey-green that earns the bottle's name in the first thirty seconds.
The development moves quickly into smoke — guaiac and frankincense lining the centre, ambergris lending a salty mineral lift, amber warming the edges just enough to keep the composition from going completely austere. Leather glides in like a faint shadow.
The base is where the perfume settles into character: oakmoss, sandalwood and benzoin, the moss giving floor and the benzoin a balsamic gleam. Overall the perfume reads carved and graphite-cool, masculine, with a quiet authority that carries through hours.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
