Cafe
A bright citrus pair — lemon and bergamot — meets freshly-ground coffee at the opening; the contrast is sharp and not blended away, more cup-on-counter than mocha bar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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 Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Rosemary
- Lily
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA bright citrus pair — lemon and bergamot — meets freshly-ground coffee at the opening; the contrast is sharp and not blended away, more cup-on-counter than mocha bar.
The heart turns floral, with rosemary's clean herbal lift threaded through lily, orange blossom and rose. The florals stay slim — they don't try to override the coffee, just to keep it company.
The base sits on oakmoss and moss as a chypre frame, underneath sandalwood, vetiver, cedar, patchouli, vanilla and amber. The arc is unusual — gourmand top, herbal-floral middle, mossy chypre close — and the perfume holds the whole shape rather than collapsing into the coffee.
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.
