Monsieur Eau du Matin
Bergamot opens with a bright tart citrus that reads morning-shower clean, sharp at the edges and unsugared.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Guaiac Wood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a bright tart citrus that reads morning-shower clean, sharp at the edges and unsugared.
Petitgrain enters quickly with its slightly bitter green-twig aromatic quality — the kind of facet that pulls citrus toward herbal territory rather than letting it stay simple. There's a cool freshness throughout that hints at lavender even when it's not the structural lead. The middle reads fresh-spicy without much actual spice, more brightness than warmth.
The base brings guaiac and cedar — guaiac's smoky-incense quality lending a mature shadow while cedar holds the wood spine. The drydown stays close to skin, unobtrusive. Overall the character is a clean masculine citrus-aromatic, daytime, office-appropriate, warm-weather-friendly, the kind worn for ease rather than impact.
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.
