Suave
Lavender opens crisp and camphoraceous, its cool herbal bite framed by cardamom's pepperyools and bergamot's faint metallic sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens crisp and camphoraceous, its cool herbal bite framed by cardamom's pepperyools and bergamot's faint metallic sparkle. Cedar enters quickly, sharpening the lavender into a dry, pencil-shaving edge while patchouli adds a loamy, cocoa-brown depth that keeps the heart from floating away. Iris slips in last, dusting the woods with a cool, talc-like powder that mutes the aromatics and prepares the stage for the base. Ambergris arrives as a salt-skin glow, vetiver extends the cedar's dryness into a rooty hum, and musk shepherds everything into a clean, close-wearing skin veil that smells like pressed linen warmed by a wrist. Projection stays office-polite for six hours, tilting toward cool spring mornings or breezy seaside evenings when you want barbershop polish without loud spice.
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.
