English Fern
English Fern is one of the earliest commercial fougères still in production, and it retains the genre's founding logic intact.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Lavender90
- Patchouli65
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Geranium
- Clover
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readEnglish Fern is one of the earliest commercial fougères still in production, and it retains the genre's founding logic intact. Lavender and geranium open on a clean, herbal accord that reads unambiguously masculine and distinctly British — the scent of cold water and clipped hedges. Clover in the heart provides the grassy sweetness that binds the composition, a single note doing the structural work of many.
The base is classic fougère: oakmoss dark and slightly damp, patchouli adding earthiness without modern incense overtones, sandalwood smoothing the whole. This is a working-man's cologne for people who find novelty beside the point.
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.
