L'Heure Bleue Guerlain 1912 Extrait
Bergamot opens with a clean citrus note that dissolves quickly, giving way to neroli — slightly waxy, honeyed, and more floral than strictly citrus.
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.
- Iris80
- Violet80
- Powdery70
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Neroli
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a clean citrus note that dissolves quickly, giving way to neroli — slightly waxy, honeyed, and more floral than strictly citrus. Together they form a brief luminous prelude before the heart takes over.
Iris and violet define the core, both carrying their characteristic cool, powdery quality. Violet leans a little rooty and fresh; iris adds a pale, almost dusty depth. These two dominate the composition and give it a distinctly old-world powdery character.
Tonka bean, benzoin, and vanilla warm the base without turning sweet in any obvious way — the warmth is soft and balsamic. The result is a powdery floral with a quietly resinous finish.
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.
