Aromatic Conflict
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic snap before the resin squad takes over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Opoponax
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic snap before the resin squad takes over. Olibanum and opoponax pour out a honeyed, lemon-peel incense that sticks to the amber core while labdanum adds a tarry, almost cough-syrup thickness. That resinous layer never fully dries; instead it smolders against leathery woodsmoke and a blunt patchouli that drags the scent downward into a sooty, boot-tread base. Sandalwood tries to soften the edges, yet the leather-smoke accord stays bossy, leaving a campfire-on-skin aura that lingers for hours. Projection carries a two-foot radius of singed resins and hides; wear it when cool nights call for something that smells like you just walked out of a cedar cabin fire.
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.