Trench
Trench opens with a sun-warmed fig — tangerine and bergamot amplifying the fruit's sweetness while keeping the opening from reading as edible.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Musky70
- Iris60
- White Floral50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Tangerine
- Fig
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Iris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readTrench opens with a sun-warmed fig — tangerine and bergamot amplifying the fruit's sweetness while keeping the opening from reading as edible. Neroli arrives in the heart with a bittersweet citrus-floral character, and iris adds the clean, powdery-rooty dimension that anchors much of YSL's collection.
The base is musk-forward — ambrette, a softer vegetable musk, alongside conventional white musk, cedar providing light scaffolding. The result is a skin-close fragrance hovering at the intersection of warm skin and green outdoors. Trench is modest in ambition and execution: a wearable, unisex piece from Le Vestiaire that fulfills its promise of everyday versatility without drama.
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.
