Open
Open arrived in 1985 with exactly the vocabulary of its era: lavender and bergamot bright and clean overhead, with the green bite of sage and thyme in the heart.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Lavender75
- Tobacco55
- Patchouli50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Sage
- Thyme
By the editors · 2 min readOpen arrived in 1985 with exactly the vocabulary of its era: lavender and bergamot bright and clean overhead, with the green bite of sage and thyme in the heart. A fougère in the classical sense, before the category became synonymous with aquatics and synthetic musks — there's a clarity here that smells like it belongs to a different decade.
Thyme and sage are resinous and culinary, keeping the floral softness of lavender at arm's length. The effect is herbal and slightly medicinal — a barber-shop green, not a garden.
Vetiver, tobacco, and patchouli form a dry, earthy base that grounds the herbs in something woody and lived-in. An honest, unfussy masculine that rewards patience — the smoke-and-herb dry-down is the best part.
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.