Smyrna
Bergamot and mandarin peel open bright and zesty, immediately sharpened by cardamom’s cool spice.
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
- Citrus70
- Woody60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Sandalwood
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and mandarin peel open bright and zesty, immediately sharpened by cardamom’s cool spice. Black pepper lands in the heart, crackling against the citrus oils and pushing the composition toward dry woods. Vetiver threads an earthy, slightly smoky bitterness through the pepper, preventing the spice from turning creamy. The dry-down settles on sandalwood and cedar, the former adding creamy lactones, the latter supplying clean pencil-shave dryness so the base never feels heavy. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then relaxes into a cedar-dominant skin scent that still flickers with pepper. The overall arc is citrus-spice-wood, crisp enough for warm weather yet woody enough for cool evenings.
Scent twins
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