Boutonniere No. 7
Bergamot and mandarin introduce a bright citrus facet that quickly gives way to something more complex.
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.
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and mandarin introduce a bright citrus facet that quickly gives way to something more complex. Gardenia opens in a creamy, slightly damp register, supported by oakmoss that lends an earthy, forest-floor texture from early on.
Vetiver adds a dry, smoky depth that intersects with the oakmoss to create a distinctly green-and-dark mid-phase. Castoreum introduces a leathery, animalic weight — assertive but controlled — that keeps the fragrance from reading as a straightforward floral.
The result is a structured, somewhat austere composition built around the tension between a white flower and its shadowed, animalic surroundings. Cool weather and deliberate occasions suit it best.
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.
