Belem
Bergamot offers a crisp, citrusy opening that is bright but short-lived, giving way quickly to the heart notes.
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.
- Violet60
- Oud60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Oud
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot offers a crisp, citrusy opening that is bright but short-lived, giving way quickly to the heart notes. Oud and violet form the core, with the oud presenting a dry, slightly earthy quality rather than animalic intensity. Violet contributes a powdery, floral softness that tempers the oud’s roughness and adds a nostalgic elegance. Sandalwood and oakmoss deepen the dry-down, introducing a creamy woodiness and a hint of classic chypre mossiness. Musk binds the composition, ensuring it remains wearable and subtly diffusive over time. The scent evolves noticeably, moving from bright to earthy-powdery, with good longevity and moderate sillage best suited for cool weather evenings.
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.
