Lotus Intense
Bergamot snaps open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly surrenders to clary sage's green, bittersweet camphor.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly surrenders to clary sage's green, bittersweet camphor. The sage folds into the heart, softening the citrus while adding an almost nutty, tobacco-tinged warmth that prepares the skin for the base. Leather emerges first in the dry-down, a matte, smoke-tinged hide brushed with dry patchouli leaves that lend earthy crumble rather than syrupy darkness. Labdanum amplifies the leather’s dry resinous facets, creating a subdued amber glow that stays close to skin and never turns sweet. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, shaping a crisp, quietly confident aura suited to cool weekdays and after-work drinks.
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.
