Youth Memory
Cedar opens dry and sharp, splitting the air with splintered wood and a faint trace of pencil-shaving metal.
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.
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cedar
- Vanilla
- Castoreum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens dry and sharp, splitting the air with splintered wood and a faint trace of pencil-shaving metal. Saffron lands seconds later, folding a leathery, hay-like sweetness into the grain, turning the cedar from carpentry shop into spice stall. The base arrives early: castoreum pours a dark, almost urinous fur note that braids with vanilla’s soft custard, while musk puffs a clean, skin-warm haze that keeps the animalic accord from turning fully feral. Over two hours the fur smooths into a honeyed wood, still musky but now rounded, projecting a low, steady heat that stays within shirt range. Cool autumn nights, dinner dates, or a leather-jacket commute fit its intimate growl.
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.
