Macaque
Cedar opens dry and splinter-sharp, immediately sketching a sun-bleached wooden temple.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody80
- Honey70
- Yellow Floral60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Rosewood
- Frankincense
- Ylang-Ylang
- Honey
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens dry and splinter-sharp, immediately sketching a sun-bleached wooden temple. Ylang-ylang lands next, its banana-like creaminess softening the cedar’s edges while galbanum injects a snap of cool, crushed-leaf bitterness. Frankincense weaves through the heart, lending a quiet resinous smoke that keeps the ylang from turning syrupy, and a measured drizzle of honey adds muted animalic sweetness without tipping into gourd. In the dry-down, rosewood’s pale spice and a clean white musk form a skin-close haze that smells more like warm bark than laundry. Projection stays modest, hovering just outside personal space for around six hours, perfect for quiet outdoor walks or meditative work sessions on cool spring mornings.
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.
