Sylvan Song
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic spark that steps aside for jasmine’s indolic cream to fuse with ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet oil, forming a plush yellow-floral cushion.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic spark that steps aside for jasmine’s indolic cream to fuse with ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet oil, forming a plush yellow-floral cushion. Rose enters next, tight and tea-like, trimming the cream with a dry petal edge while the tandem florals stay forward for almost an hour. As the heart settles, guaiac wood’s cooled pipe-smoke rises through benzoin and tonka, a soft balsam that sweetens the embers without turning sugary; patchouli adds a leaf-dust filter and vetiver keeps the base vertical, stopping the confection from flattening. Incense puffs in last, a wisp that braids the smoky wood and sweet resin into a sheer cash-scarf finish that hovers close to skin. Projection stays polite, a handshake radius, ideal for office days or spring theatre; longevity reaches six hours with the guaiac-incense tandem still audible on cuffs.
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.
