Perception
Perception opens on bergamot with a clean, citrus clarity that fades quickly, making way for a rich and complex floral-animalic heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tuberose90
- Animalic70
- White Floral60
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Tuberose
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readPerception opens on bergamot with a clean, citrus clarity that fades quickly, making way for a rich and complex floral-animalic heart. Tuberose takes centre stage with conviction — narcotic and indolic — while iris pulls in a cool, powdery counterpoint. Patchouli and vetiver add earthiness beneath.
Castoreum in the base gives the composition an unmistakably animalic dimension, pairing with tonka bean's soft warmth. Vanilla and white musk round things out, but the castoreum keeps the drydown from becoming merely sweet. The animalic note is not subtle.
This is a dense, full-bodied fragrance that projects with authority. It suits evening wear in cool conditions, for those comfortable with its bold, skin-like character.
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.
