Swiss Army Forest
The opening is sharp and slightly medicinal—lemon oil cut with nutmeg's dry spice, bracing as alpine air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Oakmoss80
- Cedar70
- Lemon60
- Green40
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is sharp and slightly medicinal—lemon oil cut with nutmeg's dry spice, bracing as alpine air. It doesn't linger long before violet leaf emerges, bitter-green and almost metallic, softening the citrus into something cooler and more contemplative. Cedar arrives soon after, powdery rather than raw, threading through clary sage's herbal half-light.
As it settles, oakmoss anchors the composition with that unmistakable forest-floor earthiness, though in modern formulations it tends toward suggestion rather than full vintage depth. The violet leaf persists underneath, keeping the woods from turning too sweet or heavy.
This wears close and fades gently, a restrained masculine that skews more outdoorsy than boardroom. It suits someone who prefers quiet competence over announcement—functional in the best sense, like the brand's namesake knife.
