The Mountain Standing Still
Bergamot and clary sage establish an aromatic-herbal opening with a citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Soft Spicy70
- Aromatic70
- Earthy70
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and clary sage establish an aromatic-herbal opening with a citrus edge. Saffron adds a metallic, slightly leathery warmth that threads through the composition from the start, preventing it from reading as purely fresh.
Cardamom and patchouli build a spiced earthy foundation beneath the sage. Vetiver ties everything together with its characteristic dry, smoky rootiness — the dominant note in the drydown, where the spice recedes and the earthiness takes hold.
The overall effect is austere and dry, with the saffron-vetiver pairing giving it a distinctly cool-season character. Patchouli adds body without sweetness. Best in cooler weather, this wears closest as a contemplative, unshowy composition.
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.
