Globe
Globe (1990) opens with cumin laid over lemon and bergamot — the cumin unmistakable from the first sniff, lending the citrus a warm, faintly skin-scented tilt that the era's masculines often used.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Cumin
- Lemon
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readGlobe (1990) opens with cumin laid over lemon and bergamot — the cumin unmistakable from the first sniff, lending the citrus a warm, faintly skin-scented tilt that the era's masculines often used. The heart broadens: jasmine, lily of the valley, thyme and rose, herbal-floral rather than sweet.
The base is a structured woody-leather chypre — sandalwood, leather, vetiver, labdanum, cedar, patchouli and musk — that projects firmly through the day and lasts into evening on cool skin. It is closer in temperament to Macassar than to its 90s contemporaries, a deliberately spicy masculine for fall and winter wear, the cumin its defining and divisive signature.
Scent twins
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