The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather75
- Musky70
- Earthy65
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Musk
- Leather
- Lavender
- Civet
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Pink Pepper
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening arrives cool and bright—a breath of mint softened by bergamot and lemon, pepper crackling at the edges. Within minutes, lavender emerges, but not the clean spa variety: this one leans darker, mingling with cardamom and violet in a way that suggests tailored wool and old libraries more than fields.
As it settles, leather becomes the central character, neither overly animalic nor synthetic, supported by vetiver's earthy grip and patchouli's shadow. Civet adds subtle warmth without turning feral. The base holds steady with amber and vanilla providing just enough sweetness to keep the composition from turning severe, while musk gives it skin-close persistence.
This is Tom Ford's noir sensibility rendered wearable for daylight—polished but not slick, masculine-leaning but never aggressive. It suits someone who wants presence without volume, a scent that reads as confidence rather than costume.
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.
