Nautica
The opening arrives sharp and green, a citrus accord brightened by bergamot and lime but grounded immediately by herbal clary sage and an unexpected warmth from cinnamon.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Woody75
- Citrus70
- Mossy60
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Tarragon
- Neroli
- Lime
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives sharp and green, a citrus accord brightened by bergamot and lime but grounded immediately by herbal clary sage and an unexpected warmth from cinnamon. There's a soapy, almost marine quality to the way these elements combine, though nothing explicitly aquatic appears in the formula. The effect is clean without being sterile, aromatic without turning culinary.
As it settles, jasmine and rose provide just enough floral softness to temper the brightness, while oakmoss and sandalwood build a classic masculine base that feels rooted in the early nineties. The drydown leans woody and subtly spiced, with patchouli and musk adding depth without heaviness.
This is a straightforward fresh fragrance designed for accessibility, the kind worn to the office or gym without much thought. It occupies that reliable middle ground between sporty and refined, never reaching for complexity but achieving a certain unpretentious competence. A dependable choice for anyone who wants to smell clean and vaguely outdoorsy without making a statement.
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.
