Realities Original
Sage, osmanthus, and bergamot open with a mixed herbal-floral-citrus brightness — sage clean and slightly minty-aromatic, osmanthus apricot-leathery, bergamot lifting the whole.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readSage, osmanthus, and bergamot open with a mixed herbal-floral-citrus brightness — sage clean and slightly minty-aromatic, osmanthus apricot-leathery, bergamot lifting the whole. The opening is layered and a little unusual.
The heart turns more conventional. Bulgarian rose, jasmine, lily, and freesia build a fresh-floral middle, with rose holding structure and freesia adding a green-pepper sparkle. Lily lends a slightly waxy-petal coolness, jasmine an indolic warmth. The bouquet reads polished rather than dense.
Sandalwood, amber, vanilla, and peach close it out with soft warmth — peach in the base lends a fuzzy, fruit-skin sweetness, and the amber-vanilla warms without overwhelming. A daytime-friendly fresh-floral with cozy late hours. Spring through fall, casual to date wear, quietly wearable across most contexts.
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.
