Malbec X
Malbec X opens with yuzu and grapefruit — citrus that reads clean rather than sweet — before violet leaf pulls the brightness in a slightly greener, more introspective direction.
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.
- Leather70
- Amber60
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Yuzu
- Grapefruit
- Benzoin
- Cardamom
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readMalbec X opens with yuzu and grapefruit — citrus that reads clean rather than sweet — before violet leaf pulls the brightness in a slightly greener, more introspective direction. Benzoin and cardamom sit at the center, warm and spiced, bridging the opening to a base built almost entirely around leather and suede. The patchouli is quiet, used to deepen the leather rather than announce its own presence. Amber rounds the edges. The result is a dry, unhurried masculine leather — linear in the best sense, with nothing wasted. Evening and date-night territory; wears best in cooler weather.
Scent twins
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