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Bergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, a quick flash that parts for lily of the valley’s cool, green bells and May rose’s soft petals.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Floral70
- Mossy60
- Powdery50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- May Rose
- Moss
- Amber
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, a quick flash that parts for lily of the valley’s cool, green bells and May rose’s soft petals. The heart stays airy yet gains creaminess as heliotrope folds almond-like sweetness into the bouquet, while patchouli lends a quiet earthy leaf that keeps the florals from drifting. Moss creeps in early, threading damp forest floor through the amber glow, turning the base into a powdery chypre cushion that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite, a translucent veil rather than a trail, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive through the afternoon. Best in cool spring or fall days when its green-rosy hum can breathe without heat amplifying the moss.
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