Elegy
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into cool lavender and bergamot, creating a crisp, almost metallic aromatic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Mossy90
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into cool lavender and bergamot, creating a crisp, almost metallic aromatic edge. Jasmine and rose bloom together in the heart, their white-yellow petals softening the opening without turning sweet, while a ghost of lavender lingers to keep the florals airy. The base is dominated by oakmoss and ambergris: the moss delivers a dry, brackish earthiness that smokes out the flowers, and the ambergris adds a salty, skin-like musk that clings close. Cedar and patchouli give quiet wood structure, benzoin and labdanum supply a matte, resinous warmth, yet the overall impression stays cool, shaded, and slightly mineral. Projection remains polite, hovering just outside handshake range for six hours, then settling into a soft mossy skin scent.
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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.
