Terra Nova
Bergamot opens cleanly, providing a brief citrus lift before the composition moves quickly into its heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Ambroxan
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly, providing a brief citrus lift before the composition moves quickly into its heart. Sandalwood and ambroxan form the central axis — a warm, skin-adjacent wood with a slightly waxy, diffusive quality that gives the fragrance its reach.
Violet adds a soft powdery layer, never going sharp or rooty, while tonka bean and patchouli ground the base in a dry sweetness. The patchouli reads quietly here, more earthy than dark.
Overall, this sits in well-worn territory: a citrus-opened, woody-ambery masculine with powdery violet touches. It wears comfortably across seasons, with moderate staying power and a smooth, unfussy character suited for daily use.
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.
