Heir
Heir opens with a clean, brief burst of lemon and bergamot — bright and predictable, but it clears quickly to let the heart emerge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Amber60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Suede
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readHeir opens with a clean, brief burst of lemon and bergamot — bright and predictable, but it clears quickly to let the heart emerge. Suede arrives alongside patchouli, creating a dry, slightly dusty texture where the earthiness of patchouli and the smoothed-out quality of suede reinforce each other.
As the fragrance develops, tonka bean brings a subtle sweetness that bridges the suede-patchouli pairing into the amber and sandalwood base. It softens without oversweetening.
The dry-down is warm and moderately woody, carrying that suede character throughout. Reasonably linear after the citrus fades — a straightforward masculine-leaning composition that wears close to the skin in cool-weather contexts.
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.
