Del Mar Baldessarini
The opening is clean and crisp, a cool bergamot that feels more marine than citrus—transparent rather than tart.
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.
- Vetiver75
- Patchouli65
- Marine60
- Cedar60
- Amber60
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is clean and crisp, a cool bergamot that feels more marine than citrus—transparent rather than tart. It sets the stage for what follows like salt air before a storm.
As the scent settles, cardamom and cinnamon emerge, but not in the traditional gourmand sense. They're dry, almost dusty, tempered by pale cedar that keeps sweetness at bay. This middle phase has an aromatic quality that suggests driftwood and spice trade routes rather than dessert counters.
The base anchors everything with vetiver's earthy backbone, softened by amber warmth and patchouli's dark earthiness. The result is masculine without aggression—a fragrance that could suit a man comfortable in both tailored linen and weathered leather. It occupies that particular mid-2000s territory: refined woody spice that hasn't yet tipped into the oud-saturated landscape that would follow.
