Tartufo
Tartufo opens with ginger alone — clean, slightly medicinal, dry rather than spicy.
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.
- Woody60
- Floral60
- Animalic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Jasmine Sambac
- Palisander Rosewood
- Violet
- Virginian Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readTartufo opens with ginger alone — clean, slightly medicinal, dry rather than spicy. It's a deliberate and patient beginning that resists the temptation to pile on, trusting the single note to hold attention before anything else arrives.
Jasmine sambac and violet enter the heart alongside palisander rosewood, a combination that creates an interesting tension: the jasmine's indolic sweetness pushes toward lushness, while the rosewood's resinous, slightly pencil-shaving quality anchors it. Violet adds a powdery transition between the two. The result is complex in a way the note count doesn't initially suggest.
The base settles into white sandalwood and Virginian cedar, with balsamic and animal notes adding a warm, slightly animalic undercurrent that gives the fragrance genuine depth and staying power. Tartufo — named for truffle — delivers on its earthy, luxurious implication.
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.
