Y Eau de Toilette
The opening strikes sharply—ginger's peppery heat tempered by bergamot's bright citrus.
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.
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- Aromatic50
- Aldehydic50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Clary Sage
- Ambergris
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes sharply—ginger's peppery heat tempered by bergamot's bright citrus. It's clean but forceful, the kind of first impression that clears the air in a room. Within minutes, lavender and clary sage arrive with their aromatic weight, herbal and slightly medicinal, grounding the brightness without softening it completely.
As it settles, the base reveals a woody-resinous structure: olibanum adds church-like depth, cedar provides dry support, while vanilla and ambergris smooth the edges just enough to keep it from turning austere. The result reads masculine in the conventional sense—linear, confident, built for visibility.
This is a fragrance for someone who wants presence without complexity, clarity without subtlety. It moves through its phases predictably, never surprising but never faltering. Best suited to professional settings or evenings where polish matters more than personality.
Scent twins
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