Perle Impériale 2024
Bergamot opens with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus edge that shears across the skin, setting up a cool metallic brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Balsamic60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Fig
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Myrrh
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brisk, slightly bitter citrus edge that shears across the skin, setting up a cool metallic brightness. The heart introduces fig, not jammy but green-stemmed and slightly milky, softening the citric snap while adding a vegetal creaminess that bridges into the base. Sandalwood arrives first in the dry-down, its buttery wood grain polished by myrrh’s resinous incense smoke, then leather folds in as a matte, faintly animalic hide that keeps the wood from turning too creamy. Over hours the composition tilts darker: the bergamot recedes, fig dries to a leafy tannin, and myrrh’s balsamic trail dominates, casting a quiet smoky shadow that lingers close to fabric. Projection stays moderate, projecting an arm’s-length aura for roughly six hours, ideal for cool spring evenings or smart-casual office days when incense-tinged woods feel refined without shouting.
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.
