Lui
A brisk citrus opening—neroli buoyed by lemon—gives way almost immediately to cedar, dry and pencil-shaved, smoothing the brightness into something more contemplative.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody65
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Lemon
- Cedar
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA brisk citrus opening—neroli buoyed by lemon—gives way almost immediately to cedar, dry and pencil-shaved, smoothing the brightness into something more contemplative. The wood never turns sharp or resinous; instead it hovers in the middle distance, clean but textured, like sunlight through venetian blinds.
As it settles, amber and vanilla fold beneath the cedar without sweetening it dramatically. Patchouli adds a faint earthiness, grounding the composition so it doesn't drift into abstraction. The effect is streamlined and composed, a kind of understated masculinity that favors restraint over volume.
This is day-to-day elegance for someone who prefers coherence to drama—office-appropriate but never forgettable, polite without being bland. It wears close, lasting longer on fabric than skin.
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.
