Spectre 575 149 Shadows of Bergamot
Cumin and cardamom spark a dry, peppery heat against bergamot’s bright citrus, the trio forming an aromatic ember that crackles for the first hour.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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 Spicy80
- Balsamic60
- Vanilla60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cumin
- Labdanum
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readCumin and cardamom spark a dry, peppery heat against bergamot’s bright citrus, the trio forming an aromatic ember that crackles for the first hour. Cinnamon and guaiac wood move in together, the spice turning sweet-smoky while the wood adds tarry smoke, all softened by a faint peach fuzz that keeps the heart from scorching. In the slow dry-down, vanilla and tonka pour a creamy, almond-like custard over ambergris’s mineral glow, while frankincense and heliotrope dust the skin with powdered sugar and church-resin ash. Projection stays within arm’s length for 6-8 hours, releasing intermittent incense puffs. Cool autumn nights, a cashmere scarf and outdoor concerts where woodsmoke already hangs in the air.
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.