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.
- Leather80
- Woody75
- Tobacco65
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Leather
- Nutmeg
- Anise
- Sandalwood
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening flash of yuzu—bright, tart, unexpectedly clean—gives way almost immediately to something darker. Leather and anise emerge within minutes, the combination striking an unusual balance between saddle-worn and herbal. Nutmeg adds warmth without sweetness, grounding what could otherwise feel too sharp.
As it settles, sandalwood and tobacco weave through the leather, creating a base that's woody rather than overtly smoky. There's vanilla here too, but it stays in the background, softening edges without announcing itself. The overall effect is polished but not overly formal—masculine in a way that doesn't insist on it.
This works best in cooler weather and feels designed for someone comfortable with contrast: citrus against hide, spice against wood. It's more restrained than many men's fragrances from its era, avoiding the heavy orientalism that dominated the early 2000s.
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.
