Mauboussin Topaze
Bergamot provides a crisp citrus opening that quickly recedes to make way for cardamom and nutmeg's aromatic spice blend, which feels both warm and subtly pungent.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot provides a crisp citrus opening that quickly recedes to make way for cardamom and nutmeg's aromatic spice blend, which feels both warm and subtly pungent. Leather arrives early in the heart, imparting a dry, tannic quality that merges with labdanum's leathery resin and amber's golden sweetness. Musk lingers underneath, adding a clean animalic foundation that prevents the spices from becoming overly sharp. This fragrance remains close to the skin with minimal sillage, offering a linear wear that emphasizes its spicy, leathery core without much development. Suited for cool weather and casual or formal settings, it projects quiet confidence.
Scent twins
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