Melancolia
Mint snaps open cool and leafy, slicing the bergamot’s mild citrus into a chilled, almost frosted lemonade.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Musk
- Ginger
- Mint
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readMint snaps open cool and leafy, slicing the bergamot’s mild citrus into a chilled, almost frosted lemonade. Ginger lands immediately after, sharpening the chill with a dry, peppery heat that erases any sweetness and keeps the composition airborne. The two facets duel rather than blend: cool green spearmint versus fibrous rhizome, a tension that hums for roughly an hour. Musk finally settles the fight, but lightly: a sheer white musk that smooths edges without adding sugar or woods, leaving a ghost of frosted spice on cotton. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-shirt radius that works best in spring warmth or stuffy offices where loud scents are unwelcome.
Scent twins
In this family
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