Chá Preto & Bergamota
Bergamot and lemon create a brisk, slightly bitter citrus opening that feels like peeling fruit in cool air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Citrus70
- Iris60
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and lemon create a brisk, slightly bitter citrus opening that feels like peeling fruit in cool air. Cardamom threads a dry, peppery warmth through the heart, softening the iris that arrives powdery and cool, turning the composition from bright to matte. Guaiac wood and vetiver in the base tighten everything with a clean, pencil-shaving woodiness, while amber adds only a faint resinous glow rather than sweetness. On skin the citrus flash is brief, giving way within an hour to a muted woody iris that stays close to the body and smells like crisp white shirt fabric. Projection is office-quiet; it works best in spring or early fall when you want discreet freshness without aquatic clichés.
Scent twins
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