The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Galangal
- Dark Chocolate
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Cedar
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readAlberto Morillas's BLV Notte Pour Homme opens with an unusual trio: galangal, dark chocolate, and bergamot. Galangal — the citrusy-spicy rhizome that distinguishes Thai cuisine from Indian — is rare in perfumery, and here it bridges the sharp edge of the bergamot with the deep sweetness of the chocolate. The combination reads as warm and exotic without becoming heavy. Ginger, cedar, and cardamom carry the heart, threading the spiced character further into dry, aromatic territory.
Sandalwood and tobacco blossom form the base — the tobacco contributing a soft, slightly sweet dry quality rather than the raw smoke of heavier masculines. The overall effect is warm, gently sweet, and distinctly Eastern-influenced: an oriental woody that wears better with cashmere than with a suit. Confident evening wear with genuine character in its opening accord.
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.
