Chypre
Lemon, bergamot, and rose open with a classic chypre preamble — citrus brightness alongside a clean, formal rose.
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
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Cedar
- Galbanum
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLemon, bergamot, and rose open with a classic chypre preamble — citrus brightness alongside a clean, formal rose. The opening is composed and structured rather than showy. The base is where the composition earns its character: oakmoss and moss create the foundational chypre texture — earthy, green, and slightly bitter.
Incense and frankincense add resinous depth, benzoin contributes a soft balsamic sweetness, and patchouli brings earthy texture. The rose and citrus top against the mossy-balsamic base is a textbook chypre structure, dry and slightly austere. A well-constructed traditional fragrance that references older formulation styles and wears best in cool weather.
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.
