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Bergamot flashes first, a quick metallic citrus that shears away within minutes.
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.
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Narcissus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a quick metallic citrus that shears away within minutes. The heart blooms into a humid yellow-flower mass: ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet fat, jasmine’s indolic thrust, and narcissus’s leathery pollen stitch together, while lily-of-the-valley keeps the cluster airy and rose gives polite structure. As the flowers warm, vetiver’s dry grass and incense’s cool smoke rise through the petals, cutting the richness with snap and haze. Vanilla and amber slowly caramelize the base, turning the earlier smoke into a creamy, resin-laced wood accord that lingers close to the skin. Projection stays polite—arm’s length for four hours—then collapses into a sweet, slightly smoky skin veil. Best for cool fall days or a subdued evening dinner where quiet opulence is preferred.
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.
