Presence
Présence opens with a warming spice cluster — ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom sharpened by bergamot — before the unusual heart unfolds: apple and heliotrope alongside sage, a combination that coheres into something fresh-sweet and slightly almond-tinged.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Apple
- Sage
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readPrésence opens with a warming spice cluster — ginger, cinnamon, and cardamom sharpened by bergamot — before the unusual heart unfolds: apple and heliotrope alongside sage, a combination that coheres into something fresh-sweet and slightly almond-tinged. Tonka and sandalwood in the base warm everything down, amber adding depth, white musk keeping it clean. A 2001 masculine with more ambition than most of its price bracket at the time — the spiced top and the sweet-herbal heart don't follow obvious genre conventions. Approachable and lasting.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
