Red Iceberg
Bergamot opens things with a clean, slightly zesty brightness before ylang-ylang moves in — heady and tropical, softened by the quiet hum of orange blossom beside it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Amber60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens things with a clean, slightly zesty brightness before ylang-ylang moves in — heady and tropical, softened by the quiet hum of orange blossom beside it. The floral heart carries a distinctive creaminess that keeps the composition from tipping into sharpness.
Patchouli grounds the mid-stage, adding a subtle earthy depth without overwhelming the florals. The base settles into amber and cedar — warm, lightly resinous, with musk smoothing the whole structure into something approachable.
Overall, Red Iceberg reads as a warm floral built around ylang-ylang's distinctive character, balanced by a woody amber dry-down. It leans feminine and evening-ready, sitting comfortably between tropical and soft-oriental territory.
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.
