Baume du Doge
Baume du Doge opens with a spiced citrus accord that reads as immediately Mediterranean — bergamot and orange providing the base brightness, cinnamon and cardamom layering in a dry, aromatic warmth that suggests the spice markets behind the perfume's Venetian name.
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.
- Smoky65
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Olibanum
- Saffron
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBaume du Doge opens with a spiced citrus accord that reads as immediately Mediterranean — bergamot and orange providing the base brightness, cinnamon and cardamom layering in a dry, aromatic warmth that suggests the spice markets behind the perfume's Venetian name. The opening is energetic but measured; these are well-balanced spices, not the sledgehammer versions.
Olibanum arrives at the heart — church incense, resinous and slightly sweet — alongside saffron's earthy, metallic warmth and cedar's clean, dry structure. The combination is quietly formal in tone, reading more like an old stone floor than a bazaar. The base settles into vetiver's smoky rootedness, benzoin's sweet-resinous warmth, and a trace of vanilla as soft resolution.
The overall register is Italian niche: restrained, historically conscious, never ostentatious. A cooler-weather fragrance with enough depth to reward attention and enough restraint to wear without effort.
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.
