Liquid Crystal
Bergamot opens with clean citrus brightness, but it is brief — incense moves in quickly, giving the composition a resinous, slightly smoky character from early on.
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.
- Smoky60
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Lavender
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with clean citrus brightness, but it is brief — incense moves in quickly, giving the composition a resinous, slightly smoky character from early on. Lavender sits just below the surface, softening the smoke without turning herbal.
Patchouli adds an earthy depth to the heart, while clove brings a quiet, warm bite. Labdanum and tonka bean take over in the base, building a dense, balsamic warmth. Cedar and vetiver lend dry, woody structure to prevent the base from going entirely sweet.
The overall effect is a dark, amber-forward oriental with good backbone. It settles into something resinous and close-wearing on skin.
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.
