Phileas
Lemon and bergamot open thin and bright, but inside two minutes the composition turns warm: cinnamon dusted over jasmine, vetiver and cedar pushing up from below, patchouli weaving the heart together into something dense and slightly resinous.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Amber70
- Leather70
- Tobacco65
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open thin and bright, but inside two minutes the composition turns warm: cinnamon dusted over jasmine, vetiver and cedar pushing up from below, patchouli weaving the heart together into something dense and slightly resinous.
The base is where the perfume actually lives. Labdanum and amber sit against tobacco and leather, with oakmoss giving the whole drydown a dry, slightly bitter floor and musk smoothing the edges. It reads as a spicy oriental — heavier than today's clean-amber fashions, more like the masculine orientals of its decade.
Wears long, projects without shouting, and asks for cold air, wool, and a setting where its scale won't feel out of place.
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.
