XX Artisan
Bergamot opens cleanly with a slight green edge before the pyramid narrows considerably.
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.
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- Woody50
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The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly with a slight green edge before the pyramid narrows considerably. With only vetiver, cedar, and musk in the base, the structure is spare — vetiver brings an earthy, slightly smoky dryness, cedar adds pale wood, and musk keeps things skin-adjacent.
This is a minimal composition that leans on textural contrast between the bright citrus top and the rooty, dry vetiver base. There is little floral or gourmand elaboration.
The overall character is quiet and undemonstrative — a clean woody-citrus that reads as casual and unfussy. It suits warm weather and close-to-body wear rather than any kind of formal or evening context.
Scent twins
In this family
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