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Lavender dominates the opening, its clean aromatic bite sharpened by lemon and bergamot into a brisk, almost medicinal chill.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Thyme
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its clean aromatic bite sharpened by lemon and bergamot into a brisk, almost medicinal chill. The herbs arrive quickly: sage thickens the lavender with a fuzzy, camphorous edge while thyme adds a faint green pepper heat that keeps the citrus from turning sweet. Vetiver threads through the heart, its dry grass smoke lifting the tobacco leaf that swells in the base, earthy and slightly honeyed, backed by patchouli’s cocoa-dark crumbles. Over two hours the citrus burns off, leaving a low, matte landscape of cured tobacco pressed against cool vetiver roots, still flecked with lavender lint. Projection stays within arm’s length; the structure feels tailored for cool spring mornings or air-conditioned offices, never loud enough to compete with a suit.
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.
