Hibernatus
Cumin and galbanum open with a sharp, slightly sour green bite that feels like crushed stems and dried spice, immediately announcing an off-beat character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Green60
- Earthy60
- Honey50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Galbanum
- Rose
- Tarragon
- Orange
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and galbanum open with a sharp, slightly sour green bite that feels like crushed stems and dried spice, immediately announcing an off-beat character. The heart folds tarragon’s anise-leaning verdancy around bright bergamot and sweet orange, softening the pungent start while keeping things leafy and aromatic. Vetiver and patchouli arrive early in the dry-down, stitching earthy, slightly smoky roots to a honeyed tobacco accord that smells both bitter and syrupy, like wet leaves stuck to pipe tobacco. Over hours it stays close to skin, projecting a low herbal hum that reads quietly confident rather than loud. Cool autumn days sharpen its green-amber contrast; a cotton scarf or wool coat will carry the cumin-galbanum echo for hours.
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.
