Memory Motel
A nostalgic, slightly weather-worn leather that opens on bergamot fading fast into a deeper hush — the citrus is brief, almost a hand on a door before the room takes over.
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.
- Tobacco95
- Leather70
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Frankincense
- Iris
- Moss
- Leather
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA nostalgic, slightly weather-worn leather that opens on bergamot fading fast into a deeper hush — the citrus is brief, almost a hand on a door before the room takes over.
The heart is iris and frankincense, the iris cool and grey-powdered, the resin adding a dry, faintly church-bound smoke that recasts the floral as something solemn rather than pretty.
The base is the heart of the composition: a tobacco-cured leather softened by patchouli, with damp moss underfoot and a sliver of vanilla rounding the edges. There is a clear lived-in quality, like a coat hung in a wood-panelled hallway. Overall it reads as a quiet, masculine-leaning leather — atmospheric, smoke-shaded, comfortable rather than performative, sitting close to skin.
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.
