Mists of Time
Bergamot zips open with a bright citrus snap that quickly folds into a tarry leather-birch accord, the two smoky woods turning the fruit metallic and crisp.
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.
- Tobacco80
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Birch
- Black Currant
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot zips open with a bright citrus snap that quickly folds into a tarry leather-birch accord, the two smoky woods turning the fruit metallic and crisp. Black currant adds a tart purple edge, keeping the birch from going full campfire while patchouli and a dry, blond tobacco note give the heart an earthy tobacco leaf chew. Over hours the smoke relaxes, letting vanilla warm the leather until it smells like well-worn jacket lining dusted with sugar, while clean white musk lifts the base so the scent stays airborne rather than dense. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, then settles to a skin-glow of sweet tobacco fuzz, perfect for crisp fall days or an outdoor evening concert.
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.
