Africa Desert Tobacco
Bergamot offers a brief citrus brightness that quickly gives way to incense and nutmeg.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Nutmeg
- Vanilla
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot offers a brief citrus brightness that quickly gives way to incense and nutmeg. The heart feels smoky and softly spicy, with nutmeg adding warmth without sharpness. Tobacco emerges early, its dry, earthy character deepened by patchouli's earthy-woody presence. Vanilla smooths the base with a sweet resinous quality that prevents the tobacco from feeling too arid. The dry-down is warm and slightly sweet, with a balsamic undertone from the vanilla-incense pairing. Projection is moderate and steady, lasting seven hours or more, best in cool fall or winter evenings.
Scent twins
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