Baruffa
Star anise and bergamot open with a bitter-green flash, the petitgrain sharpening the citrus into something almost gin-like.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Honey90
- Yellow Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readStar anise and bergamot open with a bitter-green flash, the petitgrain sharpening the citrus into something almost gin-like. Within minutes neroli and ylang-ylang pour in, creamy and solar, lifting the iris so that its powder feels cool rather than cosmetic. A quiet ring of lily-of-the-valley keeps the heart airy while rose adds a faint jammy glow. The base lands sweet: tonka folds honey into soft benzoin, vetiver smokes quietly underneath, and frankincense provides a dry cedar-adjacent incense that stops the confection from cloying. On skin the shift is gradual—citrus-herbal to creamy yellow floral to honeyed amber—so the perfume reads as one continuous ribbon rather than discrete layers. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-shirt radius for six hours before it settles into a powdery tonka musk.
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.
