Lilac Mist
Bergamot opens with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into a cool-toned iris-heliotrope heart, both notes reading as pale, chalky powders rather than plush flowers.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Iris50
- Vanilla50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- White Musk
- Heliotrope
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into a cool-toned iris-heliotrope heart, both notes reading as pale, chalky powders rather than plush flowers. Iris dominates the mid-stage, its carrot-seed earthiness softened by heliotrope’s faint marzipan sweetness, while violet adds a thin, woody violet-leaf facet that keeps the bouquet from turning creamy. Patchouli arrives late, supplying a dry, cocoa-brown undercurrent that anchors the powders without introducing warmth, letting white musk settle into a clean, linen-sheet skin halo. The scent stays translucent and air-borne, projecting no farther than arm’s length for roughly five hours, then collapses into a faint iris-violet musk wash. Cool spring mornings, white-cotton shirts, and quiet office days are its natural habitat.
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.
