Endymion
Endymion opens in familiar aromatic territory — sage, lavender, and bergamot, a traditional masculine accord — before the coffee heart arrives, a single note that transforms the composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Lavender70
- Leather65
- Amber30
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readEndymion opens in familiar aromatic territory — sage, lavender, and bergamot, a traditional masculine accord — before the coffee heart arrives, a single note that transforms the composition. The combination of lavender and coffee is the fragrance's signature: unexpected and completely right, the bitterness of the coffee softening the lavender's herbal quality into something almost edible. The base is cathedral-grade: incense, frankincense, myrrh, vetiver, leather, sandalwood, and pepper layered into something smoky and deep that takes hours to fully declare itself. One of Penhaligon's more serious compositions — built to last, built to reward patience.
Scent twins
In this family
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.