Épices Volées
Lemon and bergamot open with brightness that fades quickly, making room for a spiced, herbal heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Balsamic80
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Bulgarian Rose
- Clove
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with brightness that fades quickly, making room for a spiced, herbal heart. Clove and cardamom dominate this middle stage — warm, sharp-edged, and dense — while Bulgarian rose adds a soft floral counterpoint and sage contributes a dry, slightly bitter aromatic lift.
Labdanum and benzoin take over in the base, building a thick resinous warmth with a honeyed, almost smoky quality. Sandalwood smooths the texture and patchouli extends the earthy-balsamic register into the drydown.
The overall character is spiced and resinous, leaning amber-forward with a herbal backbone. Best worn in cool weather when the warmth of the base 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.
