Danae
Bergamot opens Danae with a clean, citrus-forward brightness that quickly steps aside.
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.
- Fresh Spicy60
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Pink Pepper
- Cedar
- Mysore Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens Danae with a clean, citrus-forward brightness that quickly steps aside. Pink pepper arrives with a dry, woody sharpness, layered over guaiac wood's smoky grain and cedar's lean, pencil-shaving structure.
As the fragrance settles, Mysore sandalwood takes over with its characteristic creamy density — smoother and richer than most synthetic variants. Patchouli adds depth without dominating, staying earthy rather than medicinal. Musk ties the base together with a soft, skin-adjacent finish.
The overall character is a restrained woody composition with spice as a supporting texture rather than a leading statement. It wears close, suggesting cooler evening air and unhurried settings.
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.
