Bois Iridescent
Bergamot opens brisk and crystalline, its citric edge sheared into cool shards by a violet leaf that smells wet rather than green.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
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The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Violet Leaf
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens brisk and crystalline, its citric edge sheared into cool shards by a violet leaf that smells wet rather than green. Iris enters next, not powdery but matte and mineral, laying a slate-grey film over the sandalwood that slowly warms beneath. Ambergris appears only after twenty minutes, giving the wood a salt-skin radiance that keeps the composition luminous rather than creamy. The violet leaf never fully dissolves; it lingers as a cool stem-water nuance that prevents iris from turning buttery and keeps sandalwood dry. Projection stays arm-length for four hours, then collapses to a skin-whisper of salt, blond wood and chilled slate. Office-safe, spring through early fall, excels in humid climates where its airy restraint won’t suffocate.
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Scent twins
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