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Bergamot opens with a brief, clean citrus brightness before black pepper takes hold with its dry, prickly bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Citrus50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Atlas Cedar
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brief, clean citrus brightness before black pepper takes hold with its dry, prickly bite. The pairing reads sharp and modern from the start, with no immediate sweetness or floral softening.
The pepper carries through the heart largely unchallenged, joined gradually by Atlas cedar that lends a clean, dry woodiness to anchor the spice. There's a faint herbal-aromatic shimmer threading through, but the composition stays tightly focused.
The overall character is brisk, masculine, and minimalist, evoking a cool morning shave and a freshly pressed shirt. It's well-suited to daytime wear in temperate weather, the office, and active occasions where presence is welcome but distraction is not. Sillage is moderate, longevity respectable but not punishing.
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