L'Empreinte
Bergamot flashes first, a bright metallic citrus that shears across the skin for barely ten minutes before patchouli muscles in, raw and loamy, dragging an earthy bitterness that swallows the light.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Patchouli90
- Amber70
- Citrus60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Ambrox
- Ambroxan
- Patchouli
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a bright metallic citrus that shears across the skin for barely ten minutes before patchouli muscles in, raw and loamy, dragging an earthy bitterness that swallows the light. The heart is all patchouli, dry cocoa facets unfolding while Ambrox and Ambroxan fuse underneath, pumping out a mineral-amber glow that feels like warm skin rather than wood. Mid-stage the patchouli softens, its camphor edge rounded by the ambery molecules into something clean yet faintly salty, projecting a low hum rather than a shout. Dry-down stays close, a skin-scent of blond woods and musky ambergris that lasts office-hours but never enters the room ahead of you. Works best in mild weather, jeans and a tee, when you want trace-not-trace.
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.