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Bergamot opens with a brief citrus snap before vanilla and tonka arrive, sweet and almond-tinged.
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.
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brief citrus snap before vanilla and tonka arrive, sweet and almond-tinged. The opening reads more as a wash of warm comfort than a structured top accord — bright for a moment, then settling fast into the base territory.
There's no real heart to navigate. The composition jumps from the citrus opening directly into a vanilla-tonka-sandalwood embrace, with cedar adding a dry wood spine. The almond echo from the tonka is the dominant flavor through the middle.
The drydown is a sweet vanilla musk over warm wood — simple, linear, and clearly built as a body-spray scent. It lasts for the format, projects close, and reads as a casual comfort fragrance with a gourmand lean.
Scent twins
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