# What Matters is Inside - Italy
Bergamot and anise open with an unusual licorice-citrus pairing.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Ylang-Ylang
- Pink Pepper
- Ambergris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and anise open with an unusual licorice-citrus pairing. Anise's sweet-medicinal black-licorice character meets bergamot's polished citrus zest — together they create an entry that's neither purely fresh nor straightforwardly sweet.
Ylang-ylang and pink pepper develop the heart. Ylang's banana-creamy yellow floral richness leads, with pink pepper adding a rosy-aromatic crackle that prevents the floral from softening into something predictable. The two-note middle is concentrated rather than busy.
Ambergris and musk anchor the base with a salty-animalic-skin-warm finish. Ambergris contributes a marine-salty depth that feels alive, while musk extends everything close to the body. The drydown stays intimate and slightly animalic. Overall it reads as an unusual aromatic-floral with savory ambergris depth, oriented toward intimate close-range wear.
Scent twins
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