John Galliano John Galliano 2008 Eau de Parfum
Bergamot opens crisp and short, almost a flicker before the heart takes over — the citrus is more punctuation than statement, ceding ground quickly to the violet-iris core.
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.
- Violet70
- Iris60
- Lavender55
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Aldehydes
- Bergamot
- Angelica
- Lavender
- Peony
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens crisp and short, almost a flicker before the heart takes over — the citrus is more punctuation than statement, ceding ground quickly to the violet-iris core.
Lavender, peony, iris, violet, and rose arrange themselves in the middle as a faintly powdered floral chord, with iris and violet leading. The bouquet is cool and slightly suede-like, lipstick-and-pearl in register rather than fresh-cut. There's a vintage feel to the way the flowers stack.
Frankincense, amber, cedar, patchouli, and musk anchor the base, frankincense lending a thin smoke that drifts through the powder. The whole composition reads as a powdery-iris-violet floral with quiet incense underneath — restrained, dressed, and slightly nostalgic.
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.
