Doubloons
Bergamot flashes bright and briefly metallic, a quick citrus snap that clears the way for freesia’s cool green petal tone to rise.
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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.
- Floral70
- Woody60
- Citrus60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and briefly metallic, a quick citrus snap that clears the way for freesia’s cool green petal tone to rise. The heart pairs that freesia with a clean rose that keeps its petals folded rather than fully open, producing a restrained floral accord that feels more fabric than flower. Sandalwood arrives early in the base, carrying a dry creaminess that benzoin warms into a soft amber glow while musk shears off any lingering sweetness. Wear it two hours and the citrus is gone, the florals have sunk into the wood, and what remains is a skin-close, slightly powdery wood-musk with a faint bakery trace from the resin. Projection stays polite, stretching barely beyond arm’s length; it behaves like a spring office scent that won’t fight the thermostat.
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.
