Qelibar
Lime and bergamot launch Qelibar with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus flash that feels sun-dried rather than juicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Ambergris
- Labdanum
- Orange Blossom
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLime and bergamot launch Qelibar with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus flash that feels sun-dried rather than juicy. The heart folds marine-tinged ambergris into labdanum’s leathery resin, letting orange blossom lift the mix while cedar keeps the frame dry and woody. Over the first hour the citrus subsides and a smoky incense-benzoin tandem rises, pulling the amber accord darker and adding a church-pew curl that clings to skin. Vanilla arrives late, softening the embers and lending a quiet, almost nutty sweetness that lingers through the close-wearing dry-down. Projection stays polite, radiating about arm’s length for four hours then settling into a resinous skin veil ideal for cool autumn evenings or layered under a scarf in winter.
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.
