Expedition
Lemon and bergamot provide a crisp citrus opening that quickly recedes to reveal powdery floral heart notes.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Violet
- Ambergris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot provide a crisp citrus opening that quickly recedes to reveal powdery floral heart notes. Iris contributes a soft, cosmetic-like texture while violet adds a sweet floralcy that blends seamlessly into the base. Ambergris lends a subtle saline warmth alongside cedar's dry woodiness and patchouli's earthy depth, with musk providing a clean foundation. The scent evolves from bright to softly powdery with a skin-close projection that maintains intimacy throughout wear. Best suited for cooler weather and formal occasions, it demonstrates good longevity of six to eight hours with minimal sillage beyond personal space.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
