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.
- Lavender70
- Mossy70
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mint
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bracing and aromatic — mint, tarragon, and petitgrain alongside lavender and citrus, landing with the confident sharpness of a barbershop elevated by serious materials. The heart softens into lily of the valley and violet, giving the aromatic structure a clean, green counterweight. The base is where Scandal Pour Homme earns its classification: oakmoss, ambergris, and labdanum build over hours into something unambiguously classical — dense, animalic in a restrained way, and thoroughly old-school in its values. Sandalwood, tonka, and cedar smooth the finish without diminishing the weight. A fragrance that wears its references openly and executes on them completely.
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.
