Beton Brut
Bergamot slices through the opening with a crisp green edge, while bamboo adds a hollow watery coolness that reads like wet concrete.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Bamboo
- Violet Leaf
- Sage
- Saffron
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot slices through the opening with a crisp green edge, while bamboo adds a hollow watery coolness that reads like wet concrete. The heart swaps citrus for violet leaf’s metallic greenery, folding in dried sage and a pinch of saffron that gives the composition a slightly oily, industrial spice. Leather emerges early, matte and black, stitched to patchouli’s cold earthiness so the mid-phase feels like dusty stone corridors rather than luxe hide. Musk stays clean, preventing the base from growing heavy, so the scent remains airy even as the bittersweet patchouli lingers. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, then settles to a quiet skin-print of grey leather and dry wood. Works best on cool, overcast days when its mineral dryness can mirror the weather.
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.
