Hyakutake
Lemon and eucalyptus create a crisp, aromatic opening with a medicinal coolness that feels invigorating.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tobacco60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Eucalyptus
- Cardamom
- Orris
- Incense
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and eucalyptus create a crisp, aromatic opening with a medicinal coolness that feels invigorating. Cardamom introduces a warm, spicy edge that contrasts with the freshness and adds complexity. Orris root emerges in the heart, contributing a powdery, earthy texture that blends with faintly smoky incense. Ambergris adds a saline, animalic depth that enhances the fragrance's resinous character. Tobacco in the base provides a dry, leafy richness that melds with the lingering musk. The scent evolves significantly, moving from bright and spicy to deep and resinous over three hours. Projection is strong initially but becomes more subdued and personal as it dries down. Longevity extends beyond eight hours, making it suitable for evening wear in cooler seasons.
Scent twins
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