Santa Subita
Orange and bergamot open with a dry, slightly bitter citrus edge that feels more peel than juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readOrange and bergamot open with a dry, slightly bitter citrus edge that feels more peel than juice. The heart quickly folds in sandalwood's creamy wood and patchouli's leafy earth, while Virginia cedar adds a pencil-sharp dryness that keeps the wood accord austere. Benzoin warms the base with a quiet, resinous sweetness that never turns vanillic, letting musk stay clean and skin-close rather than animalic. Over three hours the citrus retreats, leaving a soft, dusted-wood haze where patchouli's cocoa facet flickers occasionally against benzoin's amber glow. Projection stays polite, a wood-resin mist that works best in cool spring or fall offices.
Scent twins
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