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Parfums De Marly · Est. 2015

Sedbury

Sedbury opens with a sharp lavender-sage pairing that feels almost medicinal before the bergamot softens the edges.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2015
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
Sedbury — Parfums De Marly
2015 · Fragrance
san·lav·vet·tub
Rating
3.8
0.6k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

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.

  • Sandalwood
    75
  • Lavender
    70
  • Vetiver
    65
  • Tuberose
    60
  • Bergamot
    55

By the editors · 2 min readSedbury opens with a sharp lavender-sage pairing that feels almost medicinal before the bergamot softens the edges. Within minutes, tuberose arrives—not the creamy white flower of summer evenings, but something greener and more restrained, hemmed in by aromatic herbs. The jasmine hovers in the background rather than dominating, giving the composition an unexpectedly measured quality for a floral-focused fragrance.

As it settles, sandalwood and vetiver create a woody scaffold that keeps the flowers from turning sweet or heavy. The base notes—vanilla, benzoin, amber—add warmth without tilting into dessert territory. The result feels like a deliberate balancing act: floral but not feminine in the conventional sense, fresh but grounded, polished but not overly safe.

This is a fragrance for someone who wants white flowers without the usual opulence, or aromatic notes without purely fougère masculinity. It occupies a middle ground that feels intentional rather than indecisive.

Filed: Parfums De MarlySillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap