Open Roger & Gallet
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.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Lavender80
- Tobacco60
- Vetiver60
- Patchouli60
- Bergamot50
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.
