Citrus Batikanga
Cardamom and bergamot open clean and lifted, the cardamom giving the citrus a soft-spicy warmth rather than heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open clean and lifted, the cardamom giving the citrus a soft-spicy warmth rather than heat. There's a brief aromatic moment that reads almost cologne-like.
The heart skips through quickly — the pyramid is sparse — and what lands is a transition straight into vetiver and myrrh. Vetiver brings smoky-earthy grass; myrrh adds a cool resinous bitterness. The pairing makes the bergamot's residue feel more anchored than it should.
The overall character is a citrus-aromatic with a serious resinous floor, neither fresh nor warm-cozy but somewhere in between. Reads as composed and quietly grown-up. Wears closer than it projects, suits cooler weather and unhurried daytime contexts.
Scent twins
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