Wild Achillea 2023
Bergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, with nettle adding a stinging green prickle that no other citrus pairing offers.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Nettle
- Bergamot
- Water Lily
- Neroli
- Musk
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and slightly bitter, with nettle adding a stinging green prickle that no other citrus pairing offers. The first minutes are unmistakably herbaceous — leaf-sap rather than citrus zest.
Neroli warms the heart into a softer floral citrus, while water lily contributes a cool, faintly aquatic transparency. The composition stays light-bodied throughout, never reaching for warmth or weight; it reads as still air over wet greenery.
Musk is the only base presence, and it stays clean and modern rather than animalic. The dry-down is a thin, herbal-musk skin trace that fades within a few hours. A summer-leaning wear suited to humid afternoons and informal contexts; closer to atmosphere than statement.
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.
