Mandarin, Neroli & Cedar
Cardamom and bergamot spark a cool-green flash that quickly sweetens as neroli’s orange-blossom soap rises.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Lily of the Valley
- Moss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot spark a cool-green flash that quickly sweetens as neroli’s orange-blossom soap rises. Lily of the valley keeps the heart crisp, stopping the neroli from turning honeyed and letting airy violet leaf slip through. Once the citrus oils fade, cedar and vetiver split the difference between dry pencil shavings and damp earth, while oakmoss reintroduces the opening’s green bite. Clean musks hover just above skin, stretching the soap impression into the late dry-down. Projection stays polite, a bright collar rather than a cloud; it fits daytime office or weekend brunch whenever the mercury climbs.
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.
