Fougère Bengale
The opening sparks like a match struck in a humid forest—ginger flares beside cool mint and lavender, but there's already a smokiness threading through, hinting at what's below.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Tobacco85
- Lavender70
- Vanilla60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Mint
- Lavender
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening sparks like a match struck in a humid forest—ginger flares beside cool mint and lavender, but there's already a smokiness threading through, hinting at what's below. This isn't the bright aromatic cleanness typical of fougères; it's warmer, headier, with tobacco leaf unfolding almost immediately beneath the herbs.
As it settles, the fern structure reveals itself through a haze of smoke and sweet resin. Oakmoss provides the classical backbone, but tonka bean and vanilla soften its edges into something plush and ambiguous. Patchouli adds earthiness without overwhelming, while tobacco remains central—not the cigarette kind, but raw leaf, slightly honeyed, darkly vegetal.
The result sits somewhere between a traditional barbershop fougère and an Oriental, masculine in architecture but sensual in temperament. It wears well in cooler weather and suits anyone drawn to fragrances that feel both composed and slightly untamed.
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.
