Scandal
Neroli and bergamot create a bright citrus-floral opening with clary sage's aromatic herbal undertones.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and bergamot create a bright citrus-floral opening with clary sage's aromatic herbal undertones. Leather emerges prominently in the heart alongside ylang-ylang's tropical floral sweetness and iris's powdery rooty character. Rose adds a classic floral accent that complements the leather without overpowering it. The base introduces incense's smoky resinous quality with vetiver's earthy dryness and benzoin's sweet balsamic warmth. This complex chypre evolves significantly from bright opening to smoky dry-down over seven to twelve hours. Moderate projection makes it suitable for formal evening wear in cooler weather, offering a sophisticated leather-iris composition with classic structure.
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.
