Bleu Abysse
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Incense
- Oud
- Vetiver
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes. Rose steps forward immediately, a clean tea-rose stripped of sweetness, set against a backdrop of cool vetiver root and dry frankincense. As skin warms, oud arrives not as barnyard smoke but as a medicinal, camphor-lined wood that sharpens the floral edge. Patchouli fills the gaps with cocoa-dark earth, while vetiver keeps the base rigid and vertical, preventing the rose from collapsing into softness. The incense never billows; it stays close, a grey ember that steadies the heart rather than dominating it. Wear time stretches past eight hours, projecting arm’s-length for the first two before it settles into a quiet, woody-rosy skin aura. Cool autumn days and tailored wool make the best frame.
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.
