Pandolfo
Sage opens brisk and resinous, its camphor bite slicing through a velvet red-rose that feels slightly jammy rather than dewy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cypriol
- Ambergris
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSage opens brisk and resinous, its camphor bite slicing through a velvet red-rose that feels slightly jammy rather than dewy. The heart trades petals for bark: sandalwood’s creamy lactones fold around cypriol’s dry, leathery smoke, turning the composition darker and more angular while still preserving a soft floral glow. Ambergris washes in next, lending a salty, skin-like radiance that lifts the woods and keeps patchouli from becoming too earthy, so the late trail stays luminous rather than heavy. Projection stays moderate, casting a polite aura ideal for office or cool spring evenings, yet the musk-anchored dry-down lingers on fabric for a good eight hours. Overall balance is polished, neither aquatic nor gourmand, occupying the calm center between aromatic freshness and balsamic warmth.
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.
