Brutus
Brutus opens with a citrus bite—bergamot and mandarin—that quickly darkens into something earthier and more feral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Patchouli80
- Mossy70
- Balsamic65
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBrutus opens with a citrus bite—bergamot and mandarin—that quickly darkens into something earthier and more feral. The brightness doesn't linger. Within minutes, patchouli takes over, not the sweet head-shop kind but a damp, mossy version that smells like turned soil and old wood. There's lavender somewhere in the middle, but it's half-buried under resinous labdanum and oakmoss, lending a bitter, medicinal edge rather than softness.
What emerges is dense and animalic without being overtly dirty. The cedar and amber provide just enough structure to keep it from collapsing into pure funk, while musk adds a skin-like warmth that clings. This isn't a fragrance that evolves dramatically—it settles into its territory and stays there, heavy and unapologetic.
Brutus suits those drawn to vintage-style chypres or the earthier side of Alessandro Gualtieri's work. It demands commitment and reads assertive, even confrontational, in cooler weather.
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.




