Acqua di Bolgheri Dr. Taffi
Lavender and cardamom open the perfume in a cool-warm pairing — lavender's herbal cleanness against cardamom's green-pod spice.
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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Ginger
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and cardamom open the perfume in a cool-warm pairing — lavender's herbal cleanness against cardamom's green-pod spice. The opening reads aromatic and slightly hummable, drier than a traditional fougère and more contemporary in its spice routing.
Ginger and nutmeg in the heart push the spice register further. Ginger adds a fizzy, bright-warm bite, nutmeg threads a baked warmth underneath. The lavender persists into this transition, lending aromatic structure that keeps the spices from going purely culinary.
The base of sandalwood, vetiver, and amber gives the perfume a quiet, dry floor — sandalwood creamy, vetiver earthy, amber warm. The whole reads as a clean aromatic-spicy masculine with a Mediterranean dryness, suited to cool-weather workwear and casual daytime use.
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.
