Vu Ted Lapidus 1975 Eau de Toilette Concentrated
Honey saturates the heart with a waxy, pollen-rich sweetness that pulls jasmine and rose into an almost candied floral accord, while clove adds a dry, medicinal heat that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy.
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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.
- Honey90
- Animalic70
- Leather60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Honey
- Clove
- Iris
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readHoney saturates the heart with a waxy, pollen-rich sweetness that pulls jasmine and rose into an almost candied floral accord, while clove adds a dry, medicinal heat that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. Iris slips in a cool, violet-tinged powder that settles over the honeyed petals, giving the composition a retro cosmetics veneer. As the base emerges, castoreum-style civet and supple leather darken the honey, turning its sweetness smoky and slightly feral, while patchouli and oakmoss tamp down the sugars with loamy bitterness. Vanilla remains a background hum, rounding edges rather than adding dessert heft; sandalwood supplies a dry, cedar-ish wood that stays subordinate to the mossy leather trail. Projection drifts at arm’s length for seven hours, projecting best in cool autumn evenings or formal dinners where its honey-leather growl can breathe without cloying.
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.



