Explorer
Explorer opens with a crisp, translucent burst of bergamot softened by clary sage, the pink pepper adding a gentle rasp rather than true heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather80
- Chocolate70
- Citrus60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readExplorer opens with a crisp, translucent burst of bergamot softened by clary sage, the pink pepper adding a gentle rasp rather than true heat. It feels scrubbed and airy, more mineral than citrus-sweet. Within minutes, a synthetic leather accord emerges—smooth, pliable, almost rubbery in texture—wrapped tightly around the backbone of ambroxan's salty-woody hum.
The development is linear and deliberate. The leather never grows rich or animalic; it stays polished and modern, bordered by that persistent ambroxan glow. There's no sweetness, no vanilla cushion, just clean skin-scent amplification.
This is engineered transparency: a fragrance that smells intentional without demanding attention. It suits someone who wants structure without ornament, presence without intrusion—office-ready, gym-bag practical, built for everyday momentum rather than occasion.
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.
