Flowers For Men - Lilac
Petitgrain opens with a citrus-adjacent brightness that has a woody, slightly bitter green character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Leather
- Rosewood
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a citrus-adjacent brightness that has a woody, slightly bitter green character. There are no strong top notes beyond this single element. The composition moves fairly directly toward leather and the heavier base materials.
Leather, rosewood, and labdanum form a dense, dry base anchored by vetiver. Virginia cedar adds structure while labdanum provides a resinous undertow that stops the leather from reading as purely dry. Musk closes at a low level.
With minimal top notes and a pyramid heavily weighted to the base, this is a quiet, skin-close leather fragrance. The mossy and animalic character from the note prior confirms a chypre-adjacent structure. Better suited to those who prefer intimate, close-wearing compositions over projectors.
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.
