Ponant
Bergamot opens with a brisk citrus snap that evaporates within minutes, clearing space for a dense heart of syrupy peach and apricot jam.
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.
- Fruity70
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Peach
- Apricot
- Patchouli
- Chocolate
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brisk citrus snap that evaporates within minutes, clearing space for a dense heart of syrupy peach and apricot jam. The fruits arrive candied, their sugars immediately marrying the caramel that bulks the base, while patchouli provides a loamy counterweight that keeps the confection from turning outright syrupy. As skin heat builds, cocoa powder emerges, drying the caramel into a matte, brownie-crumb texture that mutes the remaining fruit until only a dusty chocolate-patchouli hum remains. Projection stays within arm’s length for roughly six hours, then collapses to a vanillic skin whisper edged with soft spice. Cool autumn days accentuate the cocoa dryness, making it wearable daytime fare when heavier gour perfumes would cloy.
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.
