Malt Bottle
Orange and bergamot create a bright, slightly bitter citrus opening that quickly folds into cedar's dry woodiness.
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.
- Citrus60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Coffee
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot create a bright, slightly bitter citrus opening that quickly folds into cedar's dry woodiness. The heart introduces patchouli's earthy depth alongside roasted coffee bean, producing a dark, slightly bitter accord that mutes the initial freshness. Amber warms the base while musk adds clean skin proximity, letting the coffee-patchouli core persist as a soft, brown-filtered haze rather than sharp projection. Development stays linear: the citrus flash lasts twenty minutes before the woody-coffee axis dominates, then gradually sweetens through amber's resin over six hours. Sillage stays within arm's length, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Cool evenings and crisp fall days match its muted warmth best.
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.
