Le Vainqueur
A polished marine-fougère that opens with ginger and grapefruit over a watery melon — the ginger keeps the fruit dry-spiced, the grapefruit lending a bitter edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Marine90
- Leather75
- Salty65
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Melon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readA polished marine-fougère that opens with ginger and grapefruit over a watery melon — the ginger keeps the fruit dry-spiced, the grapefruit lending a bitter edge.
The heart is built around lavender threaded with jasmine, lily of the valley and nutmeg, the lavender setting a herbal-classical tone while nutmeg adds a soft, powdered spice. The combination reads as a tidy aromatic with a touch of floral civility.
The base is unusually deep: leather, sandalwood, vetiver, iris and amber lay a salty-mineral floor under the freshness, the iris adding cool powder and the leather a faint animalic curve. Overall the impression is an upmarket marine-lavender with a leathered spine — fresh, mature, projecting confidently into cooler weather.
Scent twins
In this family
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