Gecko
Bergamot opens this with a brief citrus brightness before incense takes over, dry and resinous, establishing a smoky character that persists throughout.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Amber75
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens this with a brief citrus brightness before incense takes over, dry and resinous, establishing a smoky character that persists throughout. The transition is quick rather than gradual.
Black pepper and saffron in the heart add a warm, slightly animalic complexity — saffron in particular lending a cumin-like richness that makes the composition feel darker and more textured. The smoke and spice interlock tightly here.
Leather in the base is assertive, anchored by amber and the soft, slightly fruity facet of osmanthus. That osmanthus note provides a faint floral-peach quality that softens the leather's edge just enough. The overall character is dry, dark, and resinous.
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.
