Illusione Bois Nu
Lemon and bergamot create a brisk, sun-lit citrus opening that feels cool rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot create a brisk, sun-lit citrus opening that feels cool rather than sweet. Patchouli arrives early, its earthy-leafy facets already softening the citric snap while clary sage adds a faintly bitter green lift. The heart is essentially patchouli squared: the note is listed twice, first in its raw, slightly camphorous form, then later filtered through tonka’s soft almond and vanillin’s creamy warmth. Vanilla does not read as dessert; it acts like a dimmer switch, pulling the composition closer to skin and letting the patchouli’s cocoa-nuanced dryness linger. Projection stays polite, a low-haze aura perfect for office or close-quarters travel in spring through early fall.
Scent twins
In this family
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