L'Heure Exquise
Neroli, cardamom and bergamot open with a bright bitter-sweet citrus-spice chord, the neroli adding a creamy floral lift that softens the cardamom's coolness.
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.
- Balsamic90
- Amber70
- Warm Spicy60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Myrrh
- Cedar
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli, cardamom and bergamot open with a bright bitter-sweet citrus-spice chord, the neroli adding a creamy floral lift that softens the cardamom's coolness. The opening reads sophisticated and aromatic from the first breath.
Myrrh, cedar and clove warm the heart significantly. Myrrh contributes a smoky balsamic depth, clove a hot spice, cedar a dry pencil-shaving woodiness. The transition from bright top to dark resinous middle is dramatic.
The base completes the picture. Ambergris adds a salty mineral animalic warmth, styrax a sticky resinous balsam. Overall the character is a dense, almost monastic resinous oriental with a brief citrus prelude. Projection is strong in the first hours and softens to a long warm balsamic drydown close to skin.
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.
