Burlington 1819
Burlington 1819 opens with a sharp, almost medicinal mint that cuts through citrus brightness—lime and grapefruit provide acidity rather than sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Rum70
- Amber55
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Oakmoss
- Cinnamon
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBurlington 1819 opens with a sharp, almost medicinal mint that cuts through citrus brightness—lime and grapefruit provide acidity rather than sweetness. The coolness doesn't last. Within minutes, warmth begins to rise from beneath: ginger and cinnamon first, then the unmistakable hay-like funk of cumin, which gives the composition an animalic edge that polarizes.
The base is dense and resinous, built around labdanum, benzoin, and vanilla that together create a thick, ambery sweetness. Oakmoss adds a grey-green bitterness that keeps things from turning gourmand, while rum and tobacco contribute a boozy, leathery quality. Patchouli and cedar provide structure; ambergris and musk soften the whole into skin.
This is a perfume of contrasts—fresh and heavy, clean and dirty, sweet and bitter. It wears like a gentleman's club with the windows thrown open: cigar smoke mixing with cold air. Bold, unapologetic, and not for everyone.
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.
