Nuit des Sens
Bergamot opens clean and bright, but nutmeg immediately smudges the citrus with a dry, peppery warmth that feels more like clove than proper nutmeg.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Ozonic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Incense
- Leather
- Violet Leaf
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens clean and bright, but nutmeg immediately smudges the citrus with a dry, peppery warmth that feels more like clove than proper nutmeg. The heart drops the brightness: incense rolls out a thin grey smoke screen, leather adds a matte, cured-hide rasp, and violet leaf supplies a raw, crushed-green snap that keeps the accord from going creamy. Patchouli in the base reintroduces some earth, yet the earlier smoke and leather linger longer, so the dry-down stays dark and slightly bitter rather than warmly woody. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles to skin. Cool autumn nights, smart-casual dinners, or a low-lit bar suit its restrained swagger best.
Scent twins
In this family
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