Bergamot
Bergamot opens bright and clean, with a more bitter-edged citrus brightness than the typical sweet zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
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The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Violet Leaf
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and clean, with a more bitter-edged citrus brightness than the typical sweet zest. Mint cuts in quickly through the heart, sharp and cool, lending a slightly toothpaste-like crispness that pulls the composition toward something almost tonic-like.
The base does the heavy lifting: violet leaf adds a cool, watery green note that bridges into vetiver's mineral grass, and patchouli grounds it with a dry, earthy depth. Musk softens the seams without sweetening anything. The overall arc is straightforward — bright top, herbaceous middle, earthy-clean base — sitting moderately close to the skin with a quiet, no-nonsense character. Projects briefly, then settles into a comfortable, faintly aromatic skin-scent.
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.
