Dark Water
Bergamot flashes metallic and green, slicing through humid air before sage and rosemary knot together into a salty, sun-baked herb bush.
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.
- Herbal60
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Incense
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes metallic and green, slicing through humid air before sage and rosemary knot together into a salty, sun-baked herb bush. The heart keeps the aromatics rough-edged, so the incense arrives already flecked with coastal driftwood rather than church pew. Patchouli pushes earth forward, drying the resins to a grey-mineral dust that clings to skin like tide-line sediment. Within two hours the brightness folds inward, leaving a close, slightly smoky sea-herb haze that smells as if someone extinguished a sage smudge with ocean water. Projection stays arm-length, perfect for breezy spring evenings or cool shoreline walks where salt air can complete the illusion.
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.
