Acqua Chiara
Bergamot opens with familiar citrus brightness — clean and well-worn territory for an Italian floral house.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Floral50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lily
- Peach
- Violet
- Nutmeg
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with familiar citrus brightness — clean and well-worn territory for an Italian floral house. The single top note is brief and transparent.
The base of vanilla, cedar, and patchouli does the heavier work. Cedar adds dry woody structure, patchouli contributes earthy depth and slight darkness, and vanilla softens both with warm sweetness.
Despite the aqua-clear name, the actual composition as listed tilts warm and earthy rather than fresh or transparent. The patchouli-cedar pairing gives the drydown a grounded, slightly resinous character that contrasts with the light citrus opening. Suited to casual fall or transition-season wear.
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.