Doraphilia
Bergamot flashes bright and citric for barely a minute before the leather accord charges forward, dry and tarry, stitched to cast ylang-ylang that softens the hide with oily banana sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Mimosa
- Narcissus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and citric for barely a minute before the leather accord charges forward, dry and tarry, stitched to cast ylang-ylang that softens the hide with oily banana sweetness. Iris and mimosa dust a cool, carrot-seed powder across the animalic spine while narcissus and rose lend a faintly-turned floral accent that keeps the composition from collapsing into pure barnyard. Mid-stage sees the castoreum-civet duo amplify the pelt, yet iris continues to float a cosmetic veil that reads as vintage face-powder against the darker musks. In the dry-down, patchouli offers a crumbly, chocolate-earth anchor that drags the leather into a smoky, almost bitter-herbal dusk while the florals fade to ghost outlines. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours before settling to skin, best deployed on cool fall evenings when its musky radius won’t overwhelm.
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.
