The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus55
- Fresh50
- Salty50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Cedar
- Sea Salt
- Ambergris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSt. Kitts for Men opens with a sharp burst of lime—not sweetened or candied, but the kind that cuts through humid air. Within minutes, cedar emerges alongside an airy sea salt accord that feels more literal than poetic: clean, mineral, vaguely aquatic without veering into synthetic blue. It's a direct interpretation of coastal warmth rather than an abstract composition.
The base settles into soft ambergris and musk, lending enough body to keep the fragrance from disappearing but never weighing it down. The overall effect is casual and uncomplicated, suited to warm weather and environments where you don't want to announce yourself. This is the sort of scent that works for weekend errands, beach towns, or anyone looking for something straightforward that doesn't demand contemplation. Unpretentious in the best sense.
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.
