Minotaure
Minotaure opens with an assertive aromatic bite — tarragon's anise-green sharpness set against the cold, sappy quality of galbanum and a slice of bergamot.
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
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Tarragon
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readMinotaure opens with an assertive aromatic bite — tarragon's anise-green sharpness set against the cold, sappy quality of galbanum and a slice of bergamot. It reads as very 1992 in the best sense: unhurried, a bit architectural, the kind of fragrance that doesn't explain itself. The floral heart softens the opening without abandoning its character; jasmine and lily of the valley sit above rather than submerging the tarragon's presence.
The base, with its woody-leathery-marine suggestion alongside warm sandalwood and cedar, reads as outdoors-masculine in the classical mode — not dated so much as unpretentious and direct.
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.
