Cologne Bigarade
With no listed top notes, the opening leans into a fresh aromatic feel built around cardamom from the wider note set: peppery, lifted, slightly green.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic55
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Rose
- Cedar
- Grass
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readWith no listed top notes, the opening leans into a fresh aromatic feel built around cardamom from the wider note set: peppery, lifted, slightly green. The first minutes feel airy and almost herbal, with no overt citrus or sweetness.
Rose takes the heart, but reads more dewy and stem-fresh than jammy, threaded with the cardamom's spice. There is a luminous, watery quality to the centre that suggests a citrus-bigarade brightness even without the literal note.
The base is cedar and grass, dry, sap-green, and rooty, lending a clean herbaceous finish under the rose. The overall character is a stripped, refreshing rose with a green-aromatic bone structure, more morning-garden than perfumed-bouquet, light in projection and short to medium in length.
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.
