Psychédélique
Bergamot opens briefly — barely enough to register before the patchouli-amber-labdanum heart asserts itself with full confidence.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Patchouli75
- Amber70
- Balsamic60
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Geranium
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly — barely enough to register before the patchouli-amber-labdanum heart asserts itself with full confidence. Geranium and rose add a dark, slightly jammy floral quality that prevents the composition from reading as purely abstract oriental; there's an earthiness here that keeps the amber from becoming syrupy.
The drydown of vanilla and musk operates at the slow end of the timescale, wearing close and sweet after the projection phase subsides — which takes some time, given that longevity well above twelve hours is commonly reported. Unambiguously rich, appropriately complex for a niche oriental, and not designed for restraint.
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.
