Cachet
Galbanum opens alone with a sharp green snap, bitter and stemmy, with no fruit or citrus to soften the entry.
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.
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens alone with a sharp green snap, bitter and stemmy, with no fruit or citrus to soften the entry. The first seconds signal a vintage chypre construction immediately.
Vetiver, jasmine, patchouli, and rose build the heart into a layered green-floral middle. The vetiver and patchouli add earthy depth while the jasmine and rose contribute heady floral weight. Reads as a polished green chypre with classical proportions.
Oakmoss, leather, civet, amber, and musk close the arc with a textbook animalic chypre base. The civet adds a frank skin warmth, the leather an assertive weight, the moss the damp earthen floor. The dry-down — bold, slightly skanky, long-lasting. Strong projection softening to a complex animalic skin scent.
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.
