Desperte
Bergamot opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that nutmeg quickly warms into a peppery-green sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that nutmeg quickly warms into a peppery-green sparkle. Violet leaf lands next, adding a cool, crushed-leaf dampness that mutes the spice while lavender lifts the heart with a clean, slightly sweet herbaceous glow. Vetiver and cedar arrive early, drying the accord into taut, grassy woods; the vetiver smokes softly, the cedar stays pencil-sharp, both stripping away any lingering citrus sugars. Wear it for two hours and it settles into a calm, grey-green vetiver skin scent that feels like laundered cotton. Projection stays arm-length for about four hours before it hugs fabric; office-safe yet quietly earthy, best in mild spring or cool summer mornings.
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.
