Bergamot, Jasmine & Labdanum
Black pepper and black-currant bite first, their tart green edges sharpening the bergamot into a metallic citrus flash that lasts mere minutes.
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
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and black-currant bite first, their tart green edges sharpening the bergamot into a metallic citrus flash that lasts mere minutes. A plush white-flower heart arrives quickly: jasmine dominates, ylang-ylang lends oily banana richness, lily-of-the-valley injects soap, and violet muffles the bouquet with powder, erasing most of the opening sparkle. The dry-down turns creamy as sandalwood and vanilla fold into labdanum’s honeyed amber, cedar adding quiet dry wood while musk anchors the flowers so they hover close rather than shout. Projection stays polite, a skin-level hum perfect for office or humid spring days when louder scents feel clumsy. Lasting power is modest; after three hours it relaxes into a soft musky skin scent that still reads clean rather than sultry.
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.
