Colognise
Colognise opens with a jolt of citrus—bergamot and lemon cut sharp and clean, then softened almost immediately by jasmine that feels oddly translucent rather than indolic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Citrus85
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readColognise opens with a jolt of citrus—bergamot and lemon cut sharp and clean, then softened almost immediately by jasmine that feels oddly translucent rather than indolic. The structure here is deliberate: a cologne that refuses to stay light. As it settles, grapefruit weaves through lily of the valley, giving the white floral a tart, almost soapy brightness that keeps things from drifting too pretty or polite.
The base is where it earns its name. Neroli adds a bitter-petally depth, vetiver grounds without turning earthy, and musk holds it all in a skin-close haze. It's recognizably a cologne in spirit—fresh, composed, linear—but denser and longer-lasting than the genre typically allows.
This is for someone who wants the civility of citrus and white florals but grows tired of fragrances that vanish by noon. It wears like a well-tailored shirt: crisp, understood, never loud.
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.
