L'Essence de la Terre
Bergamot flashes first, a quick metallic-citrus spark that subsides within minutes, letting freesia’s cool green-tinged floralcy take the lead.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Earthy80
- Rose60
- Patchouli60
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a quick metallic-citrus spark that subsides within minutes, letting freesia’s cool green-tinged floralcy take the lead. Rose enters next, adding a soft powdery bloom that mingles with the earthy patchouli already simmering beneath, creating a dusky floral-wood accord rather than a bright bouquet. Vetiver dominates the dry-down, its rooty smoke drying the vanilla’s creamy sweetness to a matte amber feel, so the base never tilts gourmand. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-arm’s length veil that lingers around six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Cool autumn days sharpen the earthy contrasts, while spring air amplifies the freesia sparkle.
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.
