Carnation
Bergamot snaps open with a metallic citrus edge that quickly folds into the heart trio.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Yellow Floral80
- White Floral70
- Violet60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Violet
- Ambergris
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a metallic citrus edge that quickly folds into the heart trio. Lily, ylang-ylang and violet bloom together: lily gives waxy white lift, ylang-ylang pours tropical custard richness, violet powders the edges to keep the bouquet from turning syrupy. Ambergris arrives first in the base, adding salty, skin-warmed radiance that lets the florals hover rather than collapse. Styrax contributes a leathery, incense-smoke shadow while musk shears off the final rough edges, leaving a dry, slightly animalic aura that smells like clean hair tousled by ocean air. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, ideal for breezy spring days or smart-casual offices where you want polish without announcement.
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.