05 Terra
Bergamot flashes bright and fleeting, a quick citrus spark that vanishes within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Opoponax
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and fleeting, a quick citrus spark that vanishes within minutes. Labdanum surges forward next, its resinous amber warmth merging with opoponax to create a leathery, incense-like heart that feels both smoky and softly sweet. Sandalwood steadies the development, its creamy wood smoothing the rougher ambery edges while patchouli adds an earthy, faintly chocolate depth underneath. On skin the scent stays linear: the balsamic amber accord dominates from half an hour onward, growing quieter but never truly changing shape, just turning drier and more tobacco-hued. Projection sits at arm’s length for three hours then pulls closer, leaving a warm, resin-tinged wood veil that lingers six to seven hours. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual offices suit its subdued richness best.
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.
