Elan
Elan opens on bergamot — clean, slightly aromatic citrus establishing a polished and classic foundation.
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.
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readElan opens on bergamot — clean, slightly aromatic citrus establishing a polished and classic foundation. The opening is brief but considered, suggesting a structure with intention rather than formula.
The base is deeply complex: tonka bean, sandalwood, oakmoss, civet, ambergris, labdanum, cedar, patchouli, and musk. This is a full chypre-oriental base with every element contributing — civet and ambergris add animalic radiance; oakmoss and labdanum provide the classic chypre resinous-earthy backbone; tonka, sandalwood, and cedar add warm woody support.
Elan is richly constructed, with a base that speaks to pre-IFRA perfumery's confidence with animalic materials. The bergamot opening is a brief prologue; the base is the point. Best in formal and evening contexts.
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.
