Private Affairs
Bergamot opens with a brief, polished citrus that quickly gives way to the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Raspberry
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brief, polished citrus that quickly gives way to the heart. Leather takes the centre with a supple, slightly smoky character that defines the rest of the composition's identity from the first half hour.
The base of sandalwood and Virginia cedar gives the leather a dry woody floor, the sandalwood adding a milky softness while the cedar keeps the texture sharp at the edges. There are no florals or spices to soften the leather core, so the impression stays single-minded. Overall the character is a streamlined leathery woody, masculine and slightly austere, with moderate projection and a steady drydown that holds the leather identity intact through most of the wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
