Cricket Song
The opening is a single bright streak of bergamot, brief and slightly bitter, before yielding almost immediately to 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.
- Floral65
- Earthy55
- Fresh45
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Vetiver
- Magnolia
- Vetiver
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a single bright streak of bergamot, brief and slightly bitter, before yielding almost immediately to the heart. There's no overture beyond that flash of citrus.
Magnolia arrives in the heart with its characteristic lemony-petal freshness, the most distinctive note in the composition — pale, slightly creamy, with a green stem still attached. As the wear develops, vetiver builds underneath, adding a rooty, slightly earthy bitterness that keeps the magnolia cool and grounded rather than letting it drift into something sweet. The interplay between the airy floral and the dry vetiver root is the entire perfume; there's nothing else to distract. Projection is intimate and the texture stays transparent, herbal-floral, and slightly damp throughout.
Overall the character is a minimalist magnolia-vetiver sketch — spare, contemplative, more haiku than novel.
Scent twins
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