Great Britain
Great Britain opens herbal-bright — sage and lemon over bergamot, the green-aromatic top of an English cologne tradition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Mossy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Violet
- May Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readGreat Britain opens herbal-bright — sage and lemon over bergamot, the green-aromatic top of an English cologne tradition. Clove sneaks in early, carrying spice into what would otherwise be a polite citrus.
The heart is austere: violet's powdered woodiness folded into May rose, restrained where most Roja florals overflow. The composition is really a chypre-leather base — oakmoss, leather, ambergris, labdanum, styrax, patchouli, iris — built in the British classical-masculine mold.
Formal, somewhat severe, deliberately retrospective. A composition that reads like a Savile Row interpretation of a 1960s chypre, refusing the sweetness most contemporary releases lean on.
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.
