Legend Special Edition 2012
Mint slices through bergamot's citrus oil, creating an ice-cold opening that reads more toothpaste than cologne.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readMint slices through bergamot's citrus oil, creating an ice-cold opening that reads more toothpaste than cologne. Lavender dominates the heart, its clean herbal facet steamrolling jasmine's indolic cream and rose's honeyed petals into a uniform barbershop blur. The base layers sweet tonka over dry sandalwood, while oakmoss and ambergris inject a salty-mineral edge that prevents the vanilla-leaning amber from turning pudding-like. During dry-down the mint resurfaces, colliding with moss to produce a cool forest-floor effect that feels shower-gel fresh rather than earthy. Projection stays arm's length for five hours before collapsing to skin, making it office-safe yet persistent enough for after-work drinks. The composition's greatest trick is laundering classic fougère structure through aquatic-clean detergents, delivering recognizable masculinity without old-school heft.
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.
