Headmaster
Apple and pear open with crisp fruity freshness tempered by cedar's dry woody character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pear
- Cedar
- Brown Sugar
- Vanilla
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readApple and pear open with crisp fruity freshness tempered by cedar's dry woody character. Brown sugar and caramel immediately introduce a gourmand sweetness that blends with vanilla's creamy warmth. Amber provides a resinous base that supports the tobacco note's dry aromatic quality, creating a contrast between sweet and earthy elements. The dry-down becomes a warm ambery vanilla with tobacco undertones and lingering caramel sweetness. Projection is moderate initially, settling to an intimate radius after two hours with seven to twelve hours longevity. Best for fall and winter casual wear in cool weather where its sweet-woody character feels comforting.
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.
