Soleil d'Italie
Lime and pink pepper arrive with a bright, almost biting clarity, soon softened by cardamom's warm spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Rose65
- Patchouli58
- Amber52
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lime
- Cardamom
- Bulgarian Rose
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLime and pink pepper arrive with a bright, almost biting clarity, soon softened by cardamom's warm spice. The opening feels Mediterranean in spirit—clean citrus against sun-bleached stone—but the progression quickly pulls toward something richer. Bulgarian rose emerges at the heart, not as a soliflore but as a rosy haze diffused through musk and pale woods.
The base is where Mancera's signature style asserts itself: white musk dominates, lending a skin-close radiance that some will find comforting and others may consider too polished. Guaiac wood and vetiver add a whisper of smokiness, while ambergris and cedar provide subtle anchoring. The rose never fully disappears, threading through the entire composition.
This is less about capturing the rawness of Italy than conjuring a mood—luminous, composed, and distinctly modern. It suits those who want presence without weight, and it performs with the tenacity typical of the house.
Scent twins
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