Mon Guerlain l'Essence
A very simple structure: lavender and bergamot opening together, sandalwood at the base, nothing else listed.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Lavender80
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readA very simple structure: lavender and bergamot opening together, sandalwood at the base, nothing else listed.
The lavender leads with its herbaceous-floral character, neither barbershop-medicinal nor candy-soft, sitting in a clean middle register. Bergamot lifts it briefly with citrus brightness, but the citrus fades fast, leaving the lavender to carry most of the wear.
Sandalwood underneath provides a creamy, quiet wood that warms the lavender's coolness without ever pulling focus. The transition between the lavender and the wood is gradual and seamless, with no real evolution to mark. The drydown is a soft lavender-and-cream haze that stays close to the skin and reads gentle, slightly cosmetic, well suited to spring and cool weather, casual or office wear.
Scent twins
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