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Clary sage opens with a sharp herbal greenness that carries aromatic and slightly medicinal facets.
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.
- Leather90
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Clary Sage
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readClary sage opens with a sharp herbal greenness that carries aromatic and slightly medicinal facets. Leather emerges quickly, presenting a dry and slightly smoky character that dominates the heart. Vetiver adds an earthy grounding while patchouli contributes a dark resinous texture beneath the leather. Rose provides a subtle floral counterpoint that softens the composition's rugged edges. The scent remains linear after the first hour, projecting moderately within personal space before settling close to skin. Longevity extends through the afternoon with a consistent leather-forward profile. Best suited for cool weather evenings and formal occasions where its assertive character feels appropriate.
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.
