Bitter Flower
Raspberry dominates the opening with a tart, jammy brightness that immediately sweetens the bergamot's citrus edge, creating a candied fruit accord.
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.
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry dominates the opening with a tart, jammy brightness that immediately sweetens the bergamot's citrus edge, creating a candied fruit accord. The heart layers gardenia and jasmine in thick white-petal creaminess, their indolic edges amplifying the raspberry into a syrupy tropical cocktail while orange blossom adds a honeyed lift. Amber and vanilla in the base thicken the composition into a chewy caramelized patchouli blanket, musk smoothing any rough edges so the fruit never quite collapses into sugar. After ninety minutes the raspberry recedes, leaving a powdery amber-patchouli skin halo that smells like raspberry-vanilla lip gloss. Projection stays within arm's reach for six hours, perfect for casual spring brunches or humid summer nights when you want noticeable but not cloying sweetness.
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.
