Chanel
Bergamot sparks a cool, metallic citrus that shears across powdery iris, creating a matte, lipstick-like veil.
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.
- Powdery80
- Musky80
- White Floral70
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- White Musk
- Powdery Notes
- Neroli
- Honey
- Cedar
- Iris
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot sparks a cool, metallic citrus that shears across powdery iris, creating a matte, lipstick-like veil. Heart neroli keeps the white-floral axis crisp while honey trickles underneath, turning the iris slightly waxy rather than sweet. Cedar arrives early, its dry splinters anchoring the musk so the composition stays airborne yet never sugary. Over hours the honey recedes, letting white musk dominate: clean skin, faint soap, a trace of pencil-shave cedar. Projection hovers at arm’s length for half a day, then collapses to a cottony skin musk perfect for close-office days or spring linen.
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.
