Arabesque
Petitgrain and bergamot create a bitter-green citrus opening that styrax immediately darkens with a resinous smolder.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Tobacco80
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Styrax
- Rose
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and bergamot create a bitter-green citrus opening that styrax immediately darkens with a resinous smolder. The heart layers neroli white florals over roasted coffee beans and dry tobacco leaf, producing an aromatic bittersweet accord that mutes the petals’ usual creaminess. Frankincense resin surges up through this heart, carrying smoky incense trails that swallow most of the jasmine and turn the tobacco leathery. Vanilla eventually balances the embers, adding a soft, almost powdery sweetness that lingers with clean musk on fabric. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles to a a skin-level hum of tobacco-vanilla incense. Cool autumn evenings and outdoor cafés match its contemplative weight.
Scent twins
In this family
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