Cosmic Bloom
Bergamot opens with citrus brightness — clean, familiar, with the faintly floral quality distinctive to bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
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- Rose50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with citrus brightness — clean, familiar, with the faintly floral quality distinctive to bergamot. The opening is brief and conventional, a standard launchpad.
Sandalwood, vanilla, and musk form the base — a warm, clean foundation. The sandalwood adds creaminess; vanilla a gentle sweetness; musk keeps the close airy. The pyramid here is very sparse, which limits how much can be said with confidence. What it suggests is a pleasant, uncomplicated fragrance in the citrus-opens-to-warm-woody mold — broadly wearable, inoffensive, and designed to project modestly. The space between bergamot and sandalwood is presumably filled by a floral accord the pyramid doesn't document.
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.
