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Bergamot opens cleanly before stepping aside for lily and iris in the heart — cool, green, almost photosynthetic.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris65
- Tobacco60
- Patchouli40
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lily
- Iris
- Oakmoss
- Guaiac Wood
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly before stepping aside for lily and iris in the heart — cool, green, almost photosynthetic. This isn't the powdery iris of classic feminines but something botanically damp, closer to a cut stem than a pressed flower. The lily reads as dewy and white-petaled, holding its freshness longer than expected.
The base takes an unexpected turn: tobacco and labdanum introduce a warm, resinous depth, while cedar and guaiac wood provide structural dryness. Smoke sits quietly without ever becoming harsh. Oakmoss and patchouli give the drydown a chypre-adjacent earthiness. Ambroxan provides its characteristic skin-amplifying warmth that holds everything close. This is a floral that shows its work in the base — the contrast between the cool opening and the warm, smoky drydown is the point.
Scent twins
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