Orange & Bergamot Molton Brown 2019 Eau de Parfum
Opens with a generous citrus stack — petitgrain's bitter-leafy edge, orange's juicy sweetness, galbanum's sharp green resin, and bergamot's tart brightness.
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.
- Citrus65
- Floral55
- Powdery50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Orange
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a generous citrus stack — petitgrain's bitter-leafy edge, orange's juicy sweetness, galbanum's sharp green resin, and bergamot's tart brightness. The combination reads as a deliberately green-tinted Mediterranean opening, more textured than a simple cologne.
The heart turns floral and slightly spiced. Neroli adds honeyed orange-flower warmth, ylang-ylang's tropical custard pushes deeper, clove contributes a dry warm-spice prickle, and rose threads a powdered jam undertone. The middle is the most complex movement — citrus memory drifting through a multi-floral chord with a spice edge.
Sandalwood's creamy spine, vetiver's smoky grass, and musk close the drydown as a quiet woody-fresh finish. Overall a polished citrus-floral with surprising depth in the middle and a clean woody-aromatic close.
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.
