Michael Sheer
Bergamot flashes bright and clean, then tuberose barges in with its creamy, rubbery white-petal weight, dragging jasmine and ylang ylang into a loud floral core.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Clove
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and clean, then tuberose barges in with its creamy, rubbery white-petal weight, dragging jasmine and ylang ylang into a loud floral core. Clove pricks the bouquet, stopping it from turning too sweet, while lily-of-the-valley keeps a green lift that stops the heart from collapsing into syrup. Sandalwood and vetiver arrive early, drying the florals with blond wood and smoky roots; amber and heliotrope add a powdered, almond-skin warmth that lingers close to the body. After two hours the spices recede, leaving a fuzzy musk-cedar halo that smells like clean hair and sun-warmed skin. Projection stays within arm’s length, polite enough for office summer days yet rich enough for humid evening dinners.
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.
