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The opening is sharp and lively—bergamot cuts through with a brightness that quickly gives way to something warmer and more intricate.
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.
- Warm Spicy70
- Sweet65
- Patchouli60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Pink Pepper
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is sharp and lively—bergamot cuts through with a brightness that quickly gives way to something warmer and more intricate. Pink pepper arrives with a dry, crackly heat, and the coffee note follows close behind, not sweet or syrupy but earthy and slightly bitter, like dark roast grounds still cool in the grinder.
As it settles, tonka bean smooths the edges, bringing a subtle sweetness that balances the coffee's astringency without turning gourmand. Patchouli anchors the base with a woody, slightly mossy depth that keeps the composition grounded and masculine.
This is a fragrance for someone who wants presence without loudness—structured but not stiff, aromatic without veering into freshness. It wears well in cooler weather and evening settings, where its spiced warmth and understated richness can fully develop on skin.
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.
