Mat; Very Male
Bergamot opens brisk and metallic, its citrus edge sharpened by cooling anise that gives the top a faint licorice snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Bamboo
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens brisk and metallic, its citrus edge sharpened by cooling anise that gives the top a faint licorice snap. Bamboo arrives early, injecting a hollow, green wateriness that thins the opening and keeps the scent airy rather than sweet. Patchouli and Virginia cedar knit together in the base, supplying dry, camphorous wood that slowly overtakes the citrus; musk fills the gaps with clean skin-like warmth. The dry-down stays woody and softly earthy, the bamboo ghosting as a cool whistle above the darker cedar. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it an easy daytime option for warm weather or the office.
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.
