Jitterbug
Blackberry rides a tart-candied edge against bergamot’s brisk sparkle, creating an almost jammy citrus top that feels dusk-purple rather than bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fruity60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Blackberry
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
- Clove
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlackberry rides a tart-candied edge against bergamot’s brisk sparkle, creating an almost jammy citrus top that feels dusk-purple rather than bright. Jasmine steps in quickly, its indolic cream softening the fruit while clove injects a dry, woody heat that keeps the heart from turning sugary; rose adds a washed-petal lift rather than full bloom. Benzoin folds the remaining berry brightness into a honeyed resin, setting the stage for incense and olibanum to exhale a cool, paper-thin smoke threaded with patchouli’s earthy leaf. Amber and musk warm the trail, turning frankincense darkness into skin-close suede that lasts closer than it projects. Quiet sillage makes it office-safe, yet the resinous dry-down favors cool fall evenings when wool sleeves can trap the waft.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
