Sloth
Sloth opens with a peculiar drowsiness—violet leaf's metallic green haze meets lavender's herbal softness, creating an atmosphere both fuzzy and disorienting, like waking mid-dream.
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.
- Incense30
- Oakmoss30
- Tonka25
- Jasmine25
- Lavender25
By the editors · 2 min readSloth opens with a peculiar drowsiness—violet leaf's metallic green haze meets lavender's herbal softness, creating an atmosphere both fuzzy and disorienting, like waking mid-dream. The cumin arrives unexpectedly, its animalic warmth mingling with jasmine's narcotic sweetness and anise's licorice shadow. This isn't the clean spa lavender of conventional perfumery; it's something stranger, muddier, humid.
As it settles, the composition reveals its architecture: oakmoss and incense resins form a mossy, ecclesiastical base while tonka and vanilla soften the edges without sweetening them entirely. The effect is of damp forest floor, prayer beads, unwashed fur—languid and unapologetically odd.
Sloth rewards those comfortable with unconventional beauty. It moves slowly, stays close, and evokes the fertile decay of a rainforest canopy where time passes differently. Not for the easily startled.
