Subversif
Bergamot and fig open together — tart, slightly milky, grounded rather than sweet.
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.
- Cinnamon70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Fig
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and fig open together — tart, slightly milky, grounded rather than sweet. The fig reads more like stem than fruit, adding a green, almost rubbery edge that keeps the opening from tipping into softness.
Cinnamon and leather meet in the heart, the leather raw and dry while heliotrope lends a faint almond-powder quality. Vetiver pulls things earthy and rooted, keeping the combination from becoming purely decorative.
Tobacco and patchouli anchor the dry-down, with ambergris smoothing the rougher edges into something warm and animalic without losing the leathery backbone. This is a textured, slightly rough composition that skews dark throughout its evolution.
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.
