L'Essence de Cerruti
Bergamot opens with a brief citrus shimmer before the leather takes over.
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.
- Leather90
- Woody60
- Warm Spicy50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Saffron
- Amber
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brief citrus shimmer before the leather takes over. Saffron joins almost immediately, lending a warm leathery-spicy texture that sits closer to suede than to raw hide.
The heart is essentially leather and saffron held together — there's no floral or fresh distraction, just the slow opening of a leather-spice accord supported by the cardamom thread from the general notes. The fragrance reads serious and grown-up from the first breath.
Amber, cedar, and benzoin warm the base, softening the leather without sweetening it. Musk pulls the drydown close to the skin. The result is a focused leather-amber composition with smoky and slightly animalic edges, lasting long and projecting modestly — winter formal territory.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
