Le Sillage Blanc

Le Sillage Blanc opens with a bitter green blast and a touch of galbanum. It develops into a more complex herbal with wormwood and hints of leather and tobacco. LSB stays green throughout, but not a fresh, crisp green. Galbanum and woody dry grass notes meld and contrast with the bitterness to create an intense and compelling earthy aromatic. I think Le Sillage Blanc is the perfect vintage-inspired but modern take on Bandit and other leathery chypres. Several years ago I attended a workshop and had the chance to sample Le Sillage Blanc before it was in production. I could not stop smelling my wrists all day. I waited months and months for it to become available so I could get myself a bottle of this gorgeous perfume. Absolutely worth the wait. Noticeable projection but not loud. Excellent staying power. Completely unisex in my opinion. Another brilliant creation by Pissara.

I recently enjoyed some green fragrances a lot. And this one is on the top of my favorite list. When I heard the name for the first time, I thought it will be an easy musky powdery skin scent type fragrance. But the name just fooled me. This 2017 released is a green and aromatic masterpiece. Overdosed galbanum, artemisia, and oakmoss, with leather, tobacco and ambrette. The opening is very bitter green like a freshly cut petitgrain stem instead of orange blossom or neroli. I like the herbal and vegetal quality and its last from the initial spray to the dry down. It’s not a piercing type of fragrance but rather masking you. The moss isn’t outdated or overly masculine, but more to a dewy wet morning bushes from your garden. Fantastic!

Umavijani Pissara has never made a secret of her love for "vintage perfumes" i.e., the perfumes that once were in the first decades of the last century even, the last decades of the nineteenth century. the 'fondatrice' and CEO of the now famous "maison de parfums niche" Parfums Dusita loves Piguets 1844s "Bandit" to this, to this "agressive leather" clad cigarette smoking Marguerite Duras, Simone de Beauvoir, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel smoking-cursing "Cuir de Russie" ladies, Colette, Mistinguett, Fréhel; Umavijani ("Uma", "Ploi") now made this wonderful modern rendition of such "foul perfume" emancipatory strengthening "les Suffragettes" and the ever, ever ongoing battle for women to own their duly righteous place under the sun in a hegemonial monomaniakal masculinist world: "male chauvinist pigs" still often coming with their heads above the acacialine while not all men are.....eeeeh, antifeminists, misogynistic autofetichists and mme. Dusita is the lady who would never put it this way but her "Sillage Blanc" is all relevant again (a bit sideays and implicite) leaving a modern ultrafeminine trail "Le Sillage Blanc" hasn't lost one iiota of the daring empreinte of her leftist sister and opens right away with all the right bitters and adstringent green accords. oakmoss, patchouli, galbanum (a persian umbelliflorum), artemisia and ... leather. yet like all the perfumes of Parfums Dusita this perfume isn't just a sum of the ingredients but manages to add (Uma, that is) an overall "impressum": sillage which overcharacterises this perfume as modern, postmodern, different and chic. galbanum (of which a resin is won) smells like a greener green, oakmos has this almost homely (as how it could be under querqueus robur) adstringancy like also assamtea has, with all the in our genome stored anciennity of a forestrial floor, on which we set our first steps as antropomorphous beings (not that that was such blessing for the world). so "Le Sillage Blanc" conveys some kind of universal forestrial-riverial dreamscape of the power of the vegetality. yet this is also that parfum de parisianité, the toc toc of the giuseppe zanotti heeled boulevardières de nuit, or the stately women dressed in chanel, dior, versace eclectic fashionable in patchwork highly and densely coloured leather ensured, empowered within the iCloud of this magnificent perfume: strong présence as the feminine without doubt always were towards tokens of masculinity. the flowers in this perfume: neroli and orange blossom add to a certain complexity giving this perfume zest (plus the cigarette note with the tabac.....)

This definitely smells like vintage Bandit with a cannabis note. I don't get the oakmoss note, which is what I was looking for and what compelled me to purchase a sample, but it's still interesting enough to keep me intrigued.

This smells like falling face first in a stack of hay, having a make-out session right there and smoking a cigarette afterwards. Amazing. Sunny, fresh, herbal and beautiful.