Argan
Bergamot snaps open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into a cool, green-tinged lily of the valley.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into a cool, green-tinged lily of the valley. Iris enters next, powdering the floral heart with a dry, lipstick-like matte texture that mutes the lily’s dew. Amber and vanilla warm the base, turning the earlier chill into a soft, fuzzy skin-linger effect while cedar adds clean wood shavings that keep the vanilla from going dessert. Musk sheathes the dry-down in a sheer, laundry-fresh veil, letting the iris-powder ghost hover for hours. Projection stays polite, a forearm-length aura perfect for office or close-quarters spring days. Composition is linear once the iris settles, so what you smell at twenty minutes is what remains, just quieter, until a skin-scent fade around the six-hour mark.
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.
