Bitter Mandarin
Petitgrain slashes first, its bitter-green twig bite sharpening bergamot’s citrus oils into a brisk, almost gin-like chill.
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.
- Iris60
- Amber50
- Citrus50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Orange
- Amber
- Iris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain slashes first, its bitter-green twig bite sharpening bergamot’s citrus oils into a brisk, almost gin-like chill. Mandarin slips in underneath, sweetening the edge just enough to keep the accord from turning harsh, while cardamom dusts the transition with a cool, peppery snap. The heart is simple orange, but rendered as a pulpy, slightly pithy brightness that rides over a quiet vetiver rootiness, giving the citrus a grassy anchor. Amber and iris arrive late: the resin warms the skin, the iris adds a suede-powder hush that blurs the earlier snap into a soft, musky glow. Projection stays polite, a one-arm-length citrus mist that folds into fabric and skin within four hours, ideal for warm spring offices or weekend brunch.
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.