Poudre de Liberte
Bergamot slices through the opening with a metallic-green edge that quickly warms as rose petals arrive, their honeyed velvet softening the citrus without erasing its snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Leather80
- Woody60
- Rose50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot slices through the opening with a metallic-green edge that quickly warms as rose petals arrive, their honeyed velvet softening the citrus without erasing its snap. Leather enters next, a matte hide that wraps the bloom, turning what began as a bright cologne into something drier and more private. The wood tandem of sandalwood and cedar layers beneath, adding creamy warmth and a pencil-shaving rasp that keeps the leather from growing too supple. Musks settle last, a clean skin dust that blurs seams and leaves a gentle suede haze hovering just above the body. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the day, tilting it toward cool-weather offices or quiet weekend errands rather than summer heat.
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.




