Ma Faute
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic citrus that drops within minutes to let jasmine and lily-of-the-valley take over, their clean white-floral soapiness amplified by a crisp rose that keeps the petals sheer rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Amber70
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic citrus that drops within minutes to let jasmine and lily-of-the-valley take over, their clean white-floral soapiness amplified by a crisp rose that keeps the petals sheer rather than sweet. Patchouli arrives early, adding a dry cocoa dust that mutes the flowers and bridges straight into the amber-vanilla base, so the scent never feels like two separate acts but one continuous fade from fresh to warm. Skin contact locks it into a soft musk halo: the vanilla stays airy, the amber stays matte, and any residual patchouli reads more as texture than earth. Projection stays within arm’s length for about five hours, then collapses to a clean linen whisper. Spring office wardrobes will get the most mileage; humid heat flattens the bergamot lift and cold weather buries it under sweaters.
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.
