L: Woody Oriental
Bergamot and lemon create a bright citrus flash that quickly folds into lavender's cool aromatic spine, while magnolia's creamy petal texture softens the transition.
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.
- Citrus70
- Aromatic60
- Lavender60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lemon create a bright citrus flash that quickly folds into lavender's cool aromatic spine, while magnolia's creamy petal texture softens the transition. Iris and jasmine form a buttery yellow-floral heart that iris powders with a cool, chalky edge, keeping the bouquet from turning sweet. Amber and patchouli warm the base, letting tobacco's dry leaf crackle against clean musk while vetiver and sandalwood supply a polished woody hum that lasts. The scent stays close, projecting no more than arm's length for six hours, shifting from citrus-lavender clarity to a muted tobacco-amber skin whisper. Cool fall evenings and smart-casual offices suit its restrained elegance best.
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.
