Dupont Circle
Mint and bergamot create a brisk, leafy-green opening that feels like snapping a stem in shaded undergrowth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readMint and bergamot create a brisk, leafy-green opening that feels like snapping a stem in shaded undergrowth. Rose soon threads through the cool herbs, warming them with a faint honeyed pollen edge rather than overt bloom. Oakmoss spreads a damp-earth cushion beneath, while cedar supplies dry pencil-shave wood and patchouli gives a loamy, slightly camphoraceous pulse that keeps the composition grounded. The heart stays green and softly floral, but the base darkens toward cool forest floor, musk adding clean skin proximity without sweetness. Projection remains polite, hovering just outside the collar for the first three hours before settling into a quiet woody-moss skin glow that still releases minty flashes when warmed. Wear it in spring or early fall when you want a tailored, outdoorsy aura that suggests wet stone paths and clipped hedges rather than overt spice or citrus brightness.
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.
