Explosive Provocation Aigner 1986 Eau de Toilette
Bergamot opens with a crisp, slightly luminous citrus edge before softening quickly.
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.
- Mossy80
- Floral70
- Green60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Coriander
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose Geranium
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a crisp, slightly luminous citrus edge before softening quickly. The transition into the heart is smooth — lily of the valley brings a cool, dewy greenness, while iris contributes a powdery, slightly rooty depth, and rose adds quiet warmth.
The base is where the composition settles into its character: oakmoss and vetiver push the fragrance toward green-earthy territory, patchouli adds a faint dark soil quality, and ambergris lends a smooth, waxy diffusion that ties the materials together without dominating.
Sandalwood in the base prevents it from going too austere. The overall shape is a classic green floral chypre — structured, slightly cool, with an earthy-powdery dry-down.
Scent twins
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