Pure Gold
Montale's house signature tends toward excess — oud, rose, amber loaded to the brim.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Floral55
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Apricot
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readMontale's house signature tends toward excess — oud, rose, amber loaded to the brim. Pure Gold works against that instinct, relying on white florals and their relationship with sweet fruit. Apricot opens it, but this is no juice: it reads more as the soft fuzz of skin near the pit than actual sweetness. Neroli and orange blossom pick up from there, luminous and slightly honeyed, with jasmine adding just enough depth to keep the heart from going watery. Vanilla and patchouli in the base give it warmth without making it a gourmand — the patchouli stays earthy, grounding the whole structure. Elegant in the quietest way.
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.
