Jérusalem
Orange, lemon, and bergamot open cleanly, the citrus bright but not aggressive.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Lavender
- Star Anise
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readOrange, lemon, and bergamot open cleanly, the citrus bright but not aggressive. Lavender enters the heart carrying its familiar cool-herbal quality alongside star anise, clove, and sandalwood — this is an oriental-adjacent composition where the spice is measured and the woods provide grounding. Cedar reinforces the structure, patchouli adding depth.
Benzoin and vanilla soften the base considerably, pulling the composition toward warmth and sweetness after the spiced-wood heart. Smoke threads quietly through the drydown without dominating — present as atmosphere rather than character. Musk ties the base together.
This sits in the fougère-oriental overlap: aromatic, slightly sweet, and consistently warm. The smoke and benzoin give it a slightly incense-like quality in the late drydown.
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.
