Under Which Rivers Flow
Petitgrain and neroli carve a bright, slightly bitter citrus channel that carries apricot’s fuzzy sweetness straight into the heart.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Animalic90
- Woody80
- White Floral70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and neroli carve a bright, slightly bitter citrus channel that carries apricot’s fuzzy sweetness straight into the heart. Sandalwood cedar adds dry pencil shavings that catch the orange-blossed ambergris, turning the middle into a salty, skin-warmed woods accord. Labdanum and benzoin pour a molten resinous layer over the cedar, letting rose hover like red dust while tonka slowly caramelizes the edges. The base is a dark animalic blanket: civet and castoreum lace the vanillic tonka with a feral musk that oakmoss keeps firmly grounded, vetiver adding cold smoke rather than green. After four hours it relaxes into a suede-thin skin scent that still throws subtle leather-tonka whispers for another half-day. Cool fall evenings and dressed-up winter dinners let the resin-animal dialogue bloom without overheating.
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.