Soir d'Afrique
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Mossy80
- Fresh Spicy70
- Patchouli60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Olibanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes. Black pepper crackles against ylang-ylang’s creamy banana facet, while patchouli drags the heart downward into loamy earth. Olibanum smolders quietly, lending a cool church-incense smoke that keeps the floral from turning tropical. Moss climbs up from the base early, fastening the composition to damp bark; cardamom pod greenness lingers on skin, flicking tiny sparks against vanillic amber that glows low and steady. The dry-down stays resinous-woody rather than dessert-sweet, projecting a calm two-foot sillage for seven hours before folding into a soft moss-tobacco skin veil. Cool fall evenings, scarf leather, outdoor concerts.
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.
