White Duke
Bergamot opens crisp and slightly bitter, its citrus edge immediately clipped by clary sage's herbal-aromatic bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Amber
- Opoponax
- Thyme
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens crisp and slightly bitter, its citrus edge immediately clipped by clary sage's herbal-aromatic bite. The heart thickens as amber and opoponax melt together, creating a resinous, honeyed layer that swallows the thyme's green sparkle and turns the composition opaque. Incense smoke rises through the amber, while benzoin adds a vanillic sheen and patchouli supplies a dry, cocoa-brown earthiness that keeps the sweet resins from cloying. Over hours the incense dominates, yet the thyme continues to flicker at the edges, giving the amber a Mediterranean herb-garden nuance rather than church-bench solemnity. Projection stays within arm's length, making it office-friendly yet evening-appropriate for cool fall nights when you want resinous comfort without shouting.
Scent twins
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