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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Animalic50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Cumin
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening of Danger Pour Homme bristles with aromatic tension—tarragon and cumin create an almost savory edge against bright citrus, while lavender adds a sharp, herbal clarity. This isn't the polite fougère you expect; there's something deliberately unsettling in the combination, a controlled roughness that feels more Parisian nightclub than English garden.
As it develops, jasmine and violet soften the aggression without taming it entirely. The heart remains angular, the florals dusted with something faintly animalic that hints at what's coming. Then the base arrives in full force: leather darkened by oakmoss and castoreum, vetiver adding earthy grit, vanilla and tonka providing just enough sweetness to keep it from turning austere. The patchouli and cedar anchor everything in a woody frame that feels deliberately vintage in construction.
This is a fragrance built for impact rather than comfort—bold, unapologetically masculine in the classical mode, and dense enough to leave a trail. It asks for confidence and a taste for the dramatic.
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.
