Shalimar Talisman Byzantin
Lemon and bergamot open with a bright, slightly candied citrus edge that quickly folds into the heart where vetiver and patchouli supply a damp earthiness, while iris powders the jasmine-rose core into a cool, suede-like floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with a bright, slightly candied citrus edge that quickly folds into the heart where vetiver and patchouli supply a damp earthiness, while iris powders the jasmine-rose core into a cool, suede-like floral. In the base, tonka and vanilla build a creamy, slightly hay-sweet amber that the sandalwood buttresses with dry wood, letting the civet-leather accord exhale a low animalic growl underscored by resinous opoponax and quiet musk. Over six hours the citrus ghosts out, leaving the leather to darken the vanilla and letting iris continue to lift the composition so it never collapses into full sweetness. Projection keeps within arm’s length, making it office-safe in cool weather, yet the resin-leather dry-down feels most at home under a fall coat or winter scarf.
Scent twins
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