Imperial Ruby
Bergamot opens cleanly, citrusy and brief, quickly yielding to a heart where violet leaf and violet dominate.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral70
- Aquatic50
- Rose50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Violet Leaf
- Violet
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly, citrusy and brief, quickly yielding to a heart where violet leaf and violet dominate. The leaf adds a green, slightly aquatic edge that distinguishes this from a simple floral, while violet proper brings soft, powdery depth. Rose fills the space between them without taking over.
Sandalwood and Virginia cedar form a dry, clean base that keeps the composition from becoming too soft. Amber adds a gentle resinous warmth, and musk provides the skin-close finish.
The overall impression is a powdery floral with a cool, slightly watery undertone from the violet leaf — feminine in structure but restrained in projection. Wears closer to skin than most ambers suggest.
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.
