Golden Chypre
Bergamot and cardamom open with a warm citrus edge, nutmeg adding a dry grain beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Patchouli70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
- Heliotrope
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and cardamom open with a warm citrus edge, nutmeg adding a dry grain beneath. It's a confident start that sits between cologne freshness and spice-market weight.
Heliotrope and rose soften the middle, with patchouli grounding both without dominating. The vetiver here reads earthy rather than smoky, holding the chypre structure together with some tension.
Labdanum and amber arrive gradually, pulling the whole composition toward a resinous warmth that lingers on skin. The musk stays understated, allowing the dry-down to feel substantial rather than sweet. This wears as a deliberate chypre with vintage bones and a measured spice backbone.
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.
