Pretexte
Bergamot provides a bright citrus opening that quickly melds with narcissus's green floral character, creating an aromatic introduction.
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.
- Mossy60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Narcissus
- Opoponax
- Iris
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot provides a bright citrus opening that quickly melds with narcissus's green floral character, creating an aromatic introduction. Iris and rose form the heart, with iris's powdery earthiness contrasting rose's floral sweetness while opoponax adds resinous depth. The base is complex with sandalwood's creaminess, oakmoss's damp earthiness, leather's rugged texture, and animalic notes from civet and castoreum. Tonka bean contributes vanilla-like sweetness while vetiver adds dry greenness and patchouli provides earthy foundation. Amber binds these elements into a warm, animalic-oriental dry-down that evolves significantly over time. Projection is substantial initially, becoming more intimate as the animalic notes settle closer to skin. Best for formal evening wear in cool weather where its complex character can fully develop.
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.
