Make Someone Happy
Bergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, its citrus edge slicing through humid air with crystalline clarity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Yellow Floral80
- Citrus70
- White Floral60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, its citrus edge slicing through humid air with crystalline clarity. Magnolia steps in next, its lemon-cream petals softening the citrus while ylang-ylang adds a custard-like richness that turns the heart velvety and faintly tropical. Orange blossom keeps the white-floral axis luminous, preventing the ylang from sliding into custard overload. As the flowers relax, tonka bean folds them into a warm, almond-edited blanket that smells like fresh hay soaked in marzipan milk. Vetiver threads a cool, rooty smoke through this dessert, anchoring the sweetness with a grassy, almost mineral snap that lingers close to skin. Projection stays intimate for roughly six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly sensual on warm spring weekends when you want to smell like sunlight on linen rather than perfume.
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.
