I Love New York for All
The opening is bright and fleeting—bergamot's citrus lift barely registers before lily of the valley fades into the background, making way for the fragrance's real agenda.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rum70
- Leather70
- Woody65
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Bergamot
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright and fleeting—bergamot's citrus lift barely registers before lily of the valley fades into the background, making way for the fragrance's real agenda. What emerges is a gourmand heart built on cocoa and coffee, though neither reads as edible or sweet in the conventional sense. The coffee note leans astringent, almost burnt, while cocoa provides a dusty, unsweetened depth that keeps things from tipping into dessert territory.
The base settles into a leathery warmth softened by rum and vanilla, with sandalwood and patchouli grounding the composition in a woody haze. It's less about New York's energy than its late-night coffee shops and worn leather booths—intimate, slightly worn-in spaces rather than bright skylines. The overall effect is approachable and unpretentious, a casual gourmand that works for anyone looking for something comforting without being overtly sweet.
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.
