Ascendant
Opens with a dense cluster of spice and citrus: ginger, fennel, cardamom, grapefruit, and bergamot arriving simultaneously.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Lavender60
- Herbal55
- Citrus55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Fennel
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Rosemary
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a dense cluster of spice and citrus: ginger, fennel, cardamom, grapefruit, and bergamot arriving simultaneously. The spices and the citrus work against each other productively — the fennel's anise edge and the ginger's heat giving the opening a density that simple citrus masculines lack. There is real presence in the first moments.
Lavender and rosemary in the heart are clean and well-defined, neither blurring into the other — a direct aromatic phase that bridges from the spiced opening to the warmer base without losing momentum. Tonka bean, vanilla, and cedar soften the dry-down while vetiver keeps some earthy texture. A structured aromatic masculine that draws on classical conventions without slavishly replicating them.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
