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Bergamot and melon open cleanly before wormwood and quince shift the direction: the wormwood brings a herbal bitterness that reads genuinely unusual for a fresh masculine, and quince adds a dry fruit tartness distinct from the sweeter melon.
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.
- Salty70
- Marine55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Quince
- Wormwood
- Bergamot
- Sea Water
- Tarragon
- Tea
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and melon open cleanly before wormwood and quince shift the direction: the wormwood brings a herbal bitterness that reads genuinely unusual for a fresh masculine, and quince adds a dry fruit tartness distinct from the sweeter melon. The opening has more edge than expected.
The heart is aquatic in the tea-and-sea-water mode, with tarragon bridging the herbal opening to the watery middle — the green anise-like quality of tarragon keeping things from going purely aquatic. Moss and cedar in the base anchor without weight. A fresh masculine with enough structural detail from the bitter and herbal registers to avoid being generic, though it stays firmly in accessible territory.
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.
