Limone di Sicilia
Limone di Sicilia opens on bergamot — clean, pale citrus — but the heart reveals an unusually complex structure for what the name implies.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Floral70
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLimone di Sicilia opens on bergamot — clean, pale citrus — but the heart reveals an unusually complex structure for what the name implies. Ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, orange blossom, violet, and May rose converge in a dense floral cluster, each contributing without a single one dominating.
The base is extensive and lush: tonka bean, sandalwood, civet, vetiver, labdanum, benzoin, amber, vanilla, clove, tobacco, iris, and musk. What results is a rich, resinous, warm oriental base that anchors the floral heart in deep amber-woody depth.
The opening suggests freshness; the development reveals ambition. The bergamot citrus is merely a preface to a substantial floral-oriental construction that grows warmer and more complex over time.
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.
