Tenere
Tenere is a late-1980s aromatic fougère with all of the era's appetite for bigness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Tarragon
By the editors · 2 min readTenere is a late-1980s aromatic fougère with all of the era's appetite for bigness. The opening stacks lavender, rosemary, lemon, grapefruit and bergamot — a herbal-citrus volley that is loud without being sour — before the heart pivots into something stranger: cinnamon and tarragon riding alongside jasmine, lily of the valley, honey, rose and anise.
The base is where the chypre bones show — leather, vetiver, oakmoss-adjacent amber, cedar, patchouli, musk — and they hold the whole structure together for six or seven hours.
Worn now, it reads as a desert-fougère statement piece: too dense for an office, well-suited to a cool evening when you want to be smelled across the room.
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.
