Bijan With a Twist
Petitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash, its twiggy bite sharpening the bergamot into something almost peppery.
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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Magnolia
- Bulgarian Rose
- Freesia
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash, its twiggy bite sharpening the bergamot into something almost peppery. Within minutes violet leaf folds in a cool, crushed-stem facet that steadies the magnolia, freesia and Bulgarian rose, turning what could have been a pastel bouquet into a crisp, leaf-shadowed floral. Osmanthus slips a faint apricot suede between the petals, keeping the heart airy rather than sweet. The dry-down trades flowers for woods: sandalwood warms, vetiver adds a clean grassy smoke, while amber and vanilla fuse into a low, skin-close hum that smells like sun-warmed bark. Projection hovers at conversational distance for four hours then settles into a cotton-soft aura perfect for spring office days or cool summer weddings.
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.
