Pelagos
Bergamot opens briefly with a citrus freshness before tonka bean takes over in the heart.
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.
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- Soft Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly with a citrus freshness before tonka bean takes over in the heart. Tonka here provides its warm, almond-vanilla quality as the central aromatic element — an unusual choice for a heart note, typically relegated to the base.
Sandalwood in the base adds creamy woody warmth, while patchouli contributes earthy depth. Leather is the defining base accord — dry, slightly animalic, and persistent. The overall trajectory moves from brief citrus into a warm tonka heart and then a dry leather-patchouli finish.
The character is a leather fragrance with unusual tonal warmth from the tonka — less austere than many leather compositions and more approachable. Suited to cooler weather and evening or casual occasions.
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Scent twins
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