Manhattan Light
Bergamot snaps open with a brisk, tea-like citrus edge that quickly folds into crisp apple flesh and a flash of pink pepper heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fruity70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Apple
- Pink Pepper
- Peony
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a brisk, tea-like citrus edge that quickly folds into crisp apple flesh and a flash of pink pepper heat. The heart layers peony’s airy petals and rose’s soft pollen dust, letting the fruit shimmer through sheer florals rather than dense sweetness. Tonka bean arrives early, threading warm hay and soft almond through the remaining petals so the fragrance never becomes overtly gourmand. Musk settles close to skin, stretching the light fruity-floral accord into a clean cotton-laundry aura that lingers discreetly for hours. Projection stays polite, a low-haze scent bubble ideal for daytime offices or warm-weather weekends when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
