Illusione Bottega Veneta 2019 Eau de Toilette
Bitter orange opens with a pithy, mouth-watering snap that quickly folds into lemon’s brighter, cleaner citrus line.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bitter Orange
- Lemon
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBitter orange opens with a pithy, mouth-watering snap that quickly folds into lemon’s brighter, cleaner citrus line. The absence of heart notes leaves the transition abrupt: citrus oils evaporate within minutes, letting tonka bean rise early, adding soft almond-meal sweetness that blunts the zest. Vetiver surfaces alongside the tonka, its dry grass-smoke facet stretching the sweetness into a subdued earthy hum that stays close to skin. Over two hours the accord simplifies further, becoming a faint almond-tonka skin tint with only a whisper of vetiver stalk. Projection stays intimate-arm-length, ideal for quiet office days or weekend errands in warm weather.
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.
