Athena
Bergamot flashes metallic-citrus, a quick blade that parts for rose dusted with dry cumin.
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.
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Incense
- Leather
- Cumin
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes metallic-citrus, a quick blade that parts for rose dusted with dry cumin. The flower softens but never sweetens; instead it absorbs the spice, turning slightly sweaty, ready for the base’s tarry styrax and blackened incense. Leather enters early, matte and smoke-cured, stretching the heart’s floral skin over an ember core. Hours in, the incense dominates, its resin pulling the remaining cumin and leather into a dark, papery curl that hovers just above skin. Projection stays moderate, sillage a charcoal trace; wear it in cool weather when you want quiet gravitas without churchly cliché.
Scent twins
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