Fresh Bergamout
Apple, neroli, and bergamot open with a clean, fresh-sweet combination — neroli adding a slightly soapy, white-floral dimension alongside the brighter bergamot and the soft green sweetness of apple.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Animalic50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readApple, neroli, and bergamot open with a clean, fresh-sweet combination — neroli adding a slightly soapy, white-floral dimension alongside the brighter bergamot and the soft green sweetness of apple. The opening is pleasant and accessible.
Oakmoss, ambergris, suede, and musk in the base move this into a nuanced chypre-leaning territory. Oakmoss provides earthy-green depth; ambergris contributes warm, salty skin quality; suede adds a subtle leather-powder texture; musk grounds everything. The base is more sophisticated than the fruit-citrus opening suggests.
The contrast between a fresh, bright opening and an earthy-suede base gives this composition a satisfying arc. The oakmoss and suede are the most distinctive elements. Moderate confidence for a well-structured, classically inspired composition.
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.
