Century Blue
Century Blue opens with a crisp bite of black pepper over bergamot, clear and direct without being sharp.
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.
- Warm Spicy70
- Iris65
- Citrus60
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Neroli
- Iris
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readCentury Blue opens with a crisp bite of black pepper over bergamot, clear and direct without being sharp. The spice feels dry rather than hot, setting a restrained tone that carries through the wear. Within minutes, ginger and neroli arrive, softening the edges while iris adds a subtle powdery quality that keeps the composition from turning too aquatic despite the sea salt lingering in the base.
The heart is where it finds its balance—neroli's slight bitterness plays against the warmth of styrax, while iris maintains a cool, almost soapy cleanness. As it settles, ambroxan and patchouli provide a woody-mineral drydown that feels modern without being aggressively synthetic. The sea salt never dominates but adds a faint salinity that suggests coastal air rather than ocean spray.
This is a polished everyday fragrance for someone who wants freshness with structure. It wears close, professional, neither loud nor timid—suited to offices, travel, warm weather when heavier scents feel like too much effort.
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.
