Lufu
Lavender dominates the opening, its cool camphoraceous edge sliced by bitter neroli and bergamot zest, creating a dry aromatic flash that feels almost medicinal.
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.
- Leather90
- Woody80
- Lavender70
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Myrrh
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its cool camphoraceous edge sliced by bitter neroli and bergamot zest, creating a dry aromatic flash that feels almost medicinal. Within minutes the heart folds in creamy sandalwood whose milky lactones tame the lavender's bite while myrrh adds a resinous, slightly smoky thickness that darkens the wood. Leather emerges early in the base, a matte, petrol-tinted hide that stitches itself to the sandalwood and pulls the composition away from traditional fougère territory. Labdanum's ambered treacle and patchouli's earthy crumble round the leather, extending its shadow so the scent stays low to skin rather than lifting. Projection remains restrained, radiating a calm woody-resinous aura best suited to cool spring evenings or crisp fall workdays when quiet confidence matters more than announcement.
Scent twins
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