Kipling
Lavender dominates the opening, its camphoraceous bite sharpened by lemon and bergamot into a brisk, soap-clean citrus-aromatic flash that feels barbershop-fresh rather than sunny.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Lavender85
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, its camphoraceous bite sharpened by lemon and bergamot into a brisk, soap-clean citrus-aromatic flash that feels barbershop-fresh rather than sunny. Basil enters quickly, adding a crushed-green edge that pushes the lavender away from sweet fields toward kitchen herbs, while a quiet jasmine lends just enough floral lift to keep the heart from turning brittle. Oakmoss and patchouli dry the fragrance down to a cool forest floor: the moss supplies a slate-grey minerality, patchouli brings earthy leaf rot, and cedar splinters provide splintery wood that stops the base from growing damp. Leather arrives late, a matte grey hide that smooths the rough edges without adding sweetness, letting musk trail close to skin with clean, cotton-warm lift.
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.
