Malbec Bleu
Ginger and bergamot open together, the ginger adding warmth to the citrus lift without turning herbal yet.
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.
- Lavender70
- Woody60
- Mossy60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Lavender
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and bergamot open together, the ginger adding warmth to the citrus lift without turning herbal yet. Sage and lavender take over in the heart—aromatic and clean, slightly medicinal in the way good sage can be—with patchouli pulling things slightly earthier. The base resolves into sandalwood, oakmoss, and amber, a classical dry woody-mossy accord that anchors the aromatic top and middle. Despite the Malbec branding, there's no grape or wine quality here—this is closer to a clean fougère with warm-herbal tendencies, suited to outdoor or casual wear.
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.
