Emblem
Emblem opens with a dry, slightly bitter grapefruit note alongside the warm medicinal quality of clary sage and the sweet spice of cardamom — a combination that reads as sophisticated fresh-oriental rather than simple citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Clary Sage
- Cinnamon
- Violet Leaf
By the editors · 2 min readEmblem opens with a dry, slightly bitter grapefruit note alongside the warm medicinal quality of clary sage and the sweet spice of cardamom — a combination that reads as sophisticated fresh-oriental rather than simple citrus. Cinnamon and black pepper build warmth in the heart, with violet leaf adding a cool green edge that prevents the spice from tipping into cloying territory.
Tonka bean and patchouli in the base bind the composition into a smooth, warm drydown with good tenacity. Emblem is a well-constructed masculine fragrance that executes its spiced-fresh concept with more precision than its price tier might suggest — reliable and pleasant rather than revelatory.
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.
