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 12 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.
- Incense70
- Black Pepper50
- Lavender50
- Leather50
- Sandalwood45
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.
