Iris
Bergamot opens with a crisp citrus note that quickly softens, acting more as a frame than a feature.
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.
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- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a crisp citrus note that quickly softens, acting more as a frame than a feature. Within minutes, the composition pivots toward its core.
Iris and violet are the clear center — powdery, slightly earthy, with heliotrope adding a faint almond warmth beneath. Jasmine provides a floral lift without sweetness, while ylang-ylang stays restrained. The violet-iris axis reads cool and rooted, not decorative.
Sandalwood, vetiver, and patchouli form a grounded base that carries some mossy depth. Amber and vanilla soften the earthiness without turning gourmand. The result is a structured, slightly formal iris scent — cool-toned and unhurried throughout its development.
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.
