Strip 2008
Bergamot opens bright and sharp, then folds quickly into iris-root dryness that powders the skin within minutes.
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.
- Mossy90
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Ylang-Ylang
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and sharp, then folds quickly into iris-root dryness that powders the skin within minutes. Orris and ylang-ylang meet at equal volume: the butter-rich iris adds cool, chalky suede while ylang supplies a faintly banana-sweet custard glow, together forming a matte floral heart. Vetiver and oakmoss arrive early, stitching green earth and bitter bark through the florals so the scent never feels clean; instead it stays damp-forest, almost mushroom. Amber and patchouli thicken the base but stay low, adding quiet resin and camphor smoke that keeps the moss accord alive for hours. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours before collapsing to a skin-close mossy musk; best for cool spring or fall offices where subtlety reads as polish.
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.
