Nautica Life
The opening is a brisk maritime accord—ginger's bite sharpened by sea salt and sage's herbal clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Marine75
- Salty70
- Lavender65
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Sage
- Sea Salt
- Lavender
- Violet
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a brisk maritime accord—ginger's bite sharpened by sea salt and sage's herbal clarity. It's meant to evoke ocean spray but reads more as clean and straightforward, the kind of freshness that announces itself without theatrics. Within minutes, the violet softens the edges while lavender adds a grooming-cabinet familiarity, keeping everything squarely in safe, wearable territory.
As it settles, hinoki wood contributes a pale, dry quality that distinguishes this from typical aquatic masculines, even if just slightly. The moss provides a hint of traditional fougère structure beneath the blue notes. The whole composition stays close, polite, and office-appropriate—designed for someone who wants the idea of a coastal breeze without committing to anything challenging.
Nautica Life is competent and unpretentious. It targets the middle ground between sport freshness and aromatic calm, delivering exactly what its notes promise with no hidden complexity.
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.
