Carbon
Bergamot opens bright, sharp and citrus-clean, stripping away any sweetness before the heart blooms.
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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright, sharp and citrus-clean, stripping away any sweetness before the heart blooms. Ylang Carbon's ylang-ylang arrives creamy and solar, folding vanilla and heliotrope into a soft almond-powder cloud that keeps amber from turning syrupy. Ambergris adds a salty, skin-warmed mineral facet that drifts just above the musk, stretching the vanilla into a sheer, seaside dusk. Mid-stage stays close, a hazy yellow-floral halo with a lactonic coconut undertone that feels like sun on linen. Dry-down is quiet musk, still dusted with heliotrope and the last salt crystals of ambergris, projecting no farther than forearm length. Projection stays polite; best for spring-summer casual wear when you want clean comfort rather than statement.
Scent twins
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