Velvet Bergamot
Bergamot and petitgrain open with a sharp, zesty brightness that reads more like a cologne than a floral — clean and slightly resinous.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Orange Blossom
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and petitgrain open with a sharp, zesty brightness that reads more like a cologne than a floral — clean and slightly resinous. Orange blossom sits in the heart with clary sage, which introduces a faintly herbal, almost medicinal dryness that keeps the florals from reading as sweet. The combination is cool and aromatic rather than lush.
Vetiver anchors the base, adding a smoky, rooty dryness that reinforces the austere direction established up top. This is a structured, linear composition that prioritises clarity over depth. It leans unisex and wears close to skin in its later hours — a restrained citrus-aromatic with a vetiver spine.
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.
