Humor a Rigor
"A Rigor" — by the rules, formally — announces the register before you open the bottle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Heliotrope
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min read"A Rigor" — by the rules, formally — announces the register before you open the bottle. Apple and grapefruit over cardamom give the opening a clean fruit-spice clarity that reads as fresh without being aquatic. Heliotrope and violet form a quietly powdery heart that diffuses the fruit-spice energy into something polished and office-appropriate.
Sandalwood, amber, and musk complete the composition with minimal drama. The general note list suggests lavender and pear add breadth to the formula beneath the structured pyramid, but the overall character stays in the professional-casual register. Confident, inoffensive, effective — the kind of fragrance that requires no explanation and generates no complaints.
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.