Clair de Jour
Bergamot flashes first, a cool citrus blade that shears open the day.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a cool citrus blade that shears open the day. Magnolia and lily-of-the-valley rush in within minutes, their waxy petals unfolding over jasmine’s greener facets while rose keeps the bouquet rounded rather than shrill. The white-floral heart stays crisp because sandalwood and Virginia cedar tuck warm wood panels underneath, letting the flowers hover rather than collapse into sweetness. After ninety minutes oakmoss spreads a cool loam blanket, its damp forest floor tinged by civet’s quiet growl and clean musk that prevents any feral turn. Skin-close sillage radiates a polite two-foot halo for six hours, projecting a dry-cleaned floral chyp that fits conservative offices or spring luncheons.
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.