Nostalgia
Nostalgia opens with petitgrain and bergamot cut through with styrax — a resinous, slightly smoky citrus that reads both sharp and warm simultaneously.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Styrax
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readNostalgia opens with petitgrain and bergamot cut through with styrax — a resinous, slightly smoky citrus that reads both sharp and warm simultaneously. The combination sets a distinctly vintage tone from the first spray.
Tobacco and patchouli dominate the heart alongside Virginia cedar, creating a dry, leathery mid-section with real density. This is the core character of the fragrance — dark, rooty, and uncompromising. Birch adds an additional smoky dimension in the base.
Leather and amber carry the dry-down, smooth but persistent. The amber is understated, allowing the leather and tobacco accord to remain central through the final hours. A polarising fragrance built for confident wear in cool or cold conditions.
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.
