Brooklyn
Orange, lemon, and bergamot open bright and zesty, with cardamom's cool aromatic warmth threading through almost immediately — the entry reads citrus-spicy with a slight Italian-cologne polish.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Benzoin
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readOrange, lemon, and bergamot open bright and zesty, with cardamom's cool aromatic warmth threading through almost immediately — the entry reads citrus-spicy with a slight Italian-cologne polish.
Magnolia enters at the heart, that distinctive lemony-floral quality bridging the citrus to something more interior. The flower stays transparent rather than creamy, and the cardamom continues to lend its cool spice presence. There's a lavender shadow keeping the middle aromatic.
The base brings benzoin, amber, and musk — benzoin's vanillic-balsamic resin warming the citrus-floral structure, amber providing a soft resinous glow, musk adding skin softness. The drydown reads warm-balsamic-citrus. Overall the character is a polished citrus-floral-amber, year-round wearable, daytime or smart casual, an easy unisex composition with quiet sophistication.
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.
