New York
**New York** opens with a crisp herbal snap—thyme and bergamot that feel more like a gentleman's barbershop than a skyline.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather70
- Musky65
- Citrus65
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Thyme
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Incense
- Civet
By the editors · 2 min read**New York** opens with a crisp herbal snap—thyme and bergamot that feel more like a gentleman's barbershop than a skyline. There's an old-world formality here, a pressed collar and polished shoes kind of elegance that refuses to pander to contemporary tastes for sweetness or aquatic transparency.
The heart brings warm spice through cinnamon and lavender, but this isn't comfort food. It's architectural: structured, deliberate, slightly austere. The animalic base of civet, castoreum, and musk gives it a leathery depth that recalls vintage masculines from the era when New York actually meant something in perfumery—before minimalism flattened everything into dryer sheets.
This is for someone who understands that a fragrance named after a city doesn't need to smell like one. It's Patricia Nicolaï's idea of urban sophistication: confident, uncompromising, and entirely uninterested in being liked by everyone.
Scent twins
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