Orientalissime
Bergamot flashes cool and slightly bitter, framing the opening with a restrained citrus edge that quickly folds into patchouli’s dry, cocoa-brown leaf.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes cool and slightly bitter, framing the opening with a restrained citrus edge that quickly folds into patchouli’s dry, cocoa-brown leaf. The heart keeps that leaf intact, letting its earthy facets mingle with the creamy lactonic tug of tonka while amber adds a translucent golden glow rather than heavy resin. Sandalwood arrives early in the base, staying soft and blond, cushioning the patchouli so the fragrance never skews rugged; vanilla slowly rises, rounding edges and lending a quiet custard thickness without overt sweetness. On skin the scent stays close, projecting a polite spiced-wood aura for several hours before settling into a clean, faintly almond-powder skin musk. Office-friendly sillage makes it a discreet cool-weather option.
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.
