Collection Signature
Bergamot opens alone — a single citrus note that implies lightness and restraint.
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
- Yellow Floral50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Narcissus
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens alone — a single citrus note that implies lightness and restraint. The bergamot reads as floral-citrus rather than purely zesty, suggesting something more composed than a straightforward fresh fragrance.
Leather is the sole base material, which makes this a genuinely sparse pyramid. The contrast between a delicate citrus opening and a raw leather drydown is stark and intentional. What happens in between is left entirely to the imagination.
With only two notes to work from, confidence here is low. The bergamot-to-leather arc suggests a minimalist, possibly niche composition with a clean exterior that gives way to something more animalic and textured. Suited to cooler contexts if the leather is prominent.
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.
