Emotion Bi-es
Emotion opens on bergamot — bright, slightly aromatic citrus that wears clean and familiar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readEmotion opens on bergamot — bright, slightly aromatic citrus that wears clean and familiar. The opening is brief and conventional, establishing freshness without any particular character.
Tonka bean, vanilla, and musk carry the dry-down. Tonka contributes its coumarin-almond warmth; vanilla adds sweetness; musk closes on a skin-close, clean base. The three notes work together to create a soft, sweet warmth that wears intimately.
The overall trajectory is simple: a citrus opening that quickly gives way to a vanillic, tonka-sweet base. Reliable and inoffensive, it reads best in casual daily wear. The dry-down is the composition's more pleasant phase.
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.
