Fougère Nobile
Lavender, bergamot, and black pepper open with clean aromatic crispness — the pepper adds bite that keeps the lavender from going soft or soapy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLavender, bergamot, and black pepper open with clean aromatic crispness — the pepper adds bite that keeps the lavender from going soft or soapy. Bergamot dissolves quickly, leaving the herbal and spicy facets in charge.
Tobacco enters in the heart as a dry, slightly smoky accord rather than a sweet pipe note. Tonka and sandalwood begin to emerge from the base, warming the tobacco without masking it. Vetiver contributes an earthy, rooty undertone throughout the development.
Patchouli in the base reads as dark and dry here, working alongside musk to ground the fougère structure. The result is austere and well-proportioned — aromatic backbone, tobacco heart, woody-earthy finish with minimal sweetness.
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.
