Dreamer The Original Edition
The sage and lavender open with a fougère clarity that feels almost clinical at first—sharp, herbal, unapologetically aromatic.
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.
- Lavender75
- Tobacco70
- Sweet55
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Lavender
- Tobacco
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readThe sage and lavender open with a fougère clarity that feels almost clinical at first—sharp, herbal, unapologetically aromatic. Within minutes, tobacco leaf arrives not as sweetness but as something dusty and papery, folding into a rose accord that leans more toward pollen than petals. The effect is softer than you'd expect from the opening, slightly powdered but still green around the edges.
As it settles, tonka bean brings a gentle warmth without tipping into gourmand territory, while vetiver and cedar anchor everything with a woody dryness that keeps the composition from feeling too plush. The result is a fragrance caught between traditional barbershop sensibility and something dreamier, more abstract—fitting for its name. It wears close to the skin after an hour, intimate rather than projecting.
This suits someone drawn to aromatic fragrances but tired of sharp citrus or aggressive lavender. There's a vintage quality here, not in the dated sense, but in its unhurried construction and willingness to let tobacco and tonka do quiet work.
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.
