North Wind
North Wind takes a stripped-down approach to masculine aromatic.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Lavender90
- Patchouli60
- Amber50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Amber
- Coriander
- Geranium
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readNorth Wind takes a stripped-down approach to masculine aromatic. Bergamot opens alone, clean and citric, before giving way to a mid-phase built around lavender and coriander — the latter providing a dry, slightly soapy spice that pairs with geranium's rose-metal-green character. Amber appears unusually in the heart rather than the base, adding warmth before the notes have fully developed, which gives the fragrance an accelerated, linear feel.
The base is austere: patchouli and vetiver anchor without frills, providing earthy-woody longevity that outlasts the more volatile opening. A utilitarian fougère construction that wears honestly for cool-weather casual use.
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.