Heliaca
Bergamot opens bright and slightly sour, a quick spark that barely settles before ginger slices through with clean heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh Spicy80
- Woody70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Oud
- Ginger
- Rosemary
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and slightly sour, a quick spark that barely settles before ginger slices through with clean heat. The heart pairs that ginger against cardamom’s cool, lemon-pepper edge, the two spices weaving a fresh-spicy lattice that keeps the top airborne. Guaiac wood arrives early, its smoky pencil-shaving texture wrapping the spices and drawing them toward a dry, resinous base. There oud is stripped of barnyard sweetness; instead it reads as singedcedar planks warmed by lingering cardamom dust, a quiet ember rather than a campfire. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it an easy daytime scent for cool spring offices or crisp fall weekends.
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.
