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.
- Woody60
- Fresh Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readJeans Couture Man swaps the fougère template for something more spice-led — cardamom and bergamot up top, lifted but not loud.
The heart is unusual for the line: violet against nutmeg, a powdery-spiced pairing more often found in niche than designer denim flankers. It reads almost cosmetic, in the best sense — the warmth of dressing-table powder rather than aftershave.
The drydown lands in a familiar place: sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, and musk, the all-purpose masculine base of the early 2000s. The result is more refined than its packaging suggested at launch, and it's quietly gathered a following on resale as the original line gets harder to find.
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.
