California Breeze
Orange and bergamot open with a clean, warm citrus — not particularly bright or sharp, but smooth and inviting.
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.
- Aromatic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Lavender
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot open with a clean, warm citrus — not particularly bright or sharp, but smooth and inviting. The California reference implied by the name aligns with the easy-going opening character.
Mint and lavender enter in the heart, each contributing coolness and herbal character. Mint provides crisp freshness, lavender aromatic warmth — together they create a familiar aromatic-herbal accord.
Amber, vanilla, and patchouli form the base. The amber-vanilla combination creates warmth and sweetness; patchouli grounds with earthy depth. The overall arc from citrus-fresh to warm-oriental is well-covered, if conventional. A pleasant, accessible fragrance that shifts comfortably from day into evening.
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.



