Mata Hari
Blood orange and bergamot flash bright and slightly bitter, immediately streaked by tarragon’s cool anise edge that pulls the citrus toward a drier, more aromatic register.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tuberose70
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Neroli
- Blood Orange
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange and bergamot flash bright and slightly bitter, immediately streaked by tarragon’s cool anise edge that pulls the citrus toward a drier, more aromatic register. The heart blooms loud: tuberose’s buttery white petals cushioned by jasmine, while cinnamon and clove spark a warm, peppery glow that keeps the flowers from turning creamy. Black currant adds a tart, almost wine-dark accent that threads into the spices and foreshadows the darker dry-down. As the spice quiets, tonka bean softens sandalwood into a supple, vanillic leather, and a wisp of dry tobacco curls around cumin’s skin-salted warmth, all laid over patchouli’s earthy backbone. Projection stays within arm’s reach for six hours, projecting a spiced floral leather aura perfect for cool fall evenings or a smart dinner date.
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.
