Sir Avebury
Sir Avebury opens with grapefruit, cypress, and bay leaf — a bracing herbal-citrus accord that is outdoorsy and slightly resinous.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bay Leaf
- Cypress
- Grapefruit
- Black Tea
- Mate
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readSir Avebury opens with grapefruit, cypress, and bay leaf — a bracing herbal-citrus accord that is outdoorsy and slightly resinous. The bay leaf adds a dark, almost spiced edge that distinguishes it from simpler citrus fougères. In the heart, pink pepper joins with maté and black tea: an aromatic, intellectual trio with a slight bitter dryness that suits the name's suggestion of quiet English countryside.
The base brings amber, cedar, and cashmere wood — warm, soft, and well-polished. Perfumer Frank Voelkl structures this as a transitional piece between classic aromatic fougères and contemporary woody males, with enough character in the middle to reward attention. It wears well in office or semi-formal settings where something quietly distinctive is appropriate.
Scent twins
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