Electra
Sage opens alone with a dry, herbal character — slightly medicinal, aromatic, and green.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Leather
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Incense
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readSage opens alone with a dry, herbal character — slightly medicinal, aromatic, and green. The single top note sets a restrained, uncomplicated tone.
Incense, patchouli, and musk in the base move the composition toward a dark, earthy-resinous territory. Incense adds smoky depth; patchouli contributes earthiness and a slightly fermented quality; musk rounds the whole structure. This base has significantly more presence and character than the single-herb opening implies.
The contrast between an austere, clean herb and a smoky-earthy base is the defining feature. The composition develops from simplicity into something more textured and dimensional. Best suited to cooler seasons and introspective occasions — an understated, somewhat unconventional fragrance.
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.
