Pure
Bergamot opens with a bright, almost sparkling citrus edge that reads more like a splash than a squeeze, quickly setting up a clean maritime backdrop.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Amber70
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a bright, almost sparkling citrus edge that reads more like a splash than a squeeze, quickly setting up a clean maritime backdrop. Amber arrives within minutes, warming the composition with a honeyed resin that smooths the citric snap yet keeps the texture weightless; saffron threads a dry, hay-like leather nuance through the amber, giving the heart a subtle, sun-bleached spice. As the skin warms, patchouli supplies an earthy, slightly cocoa-toned backbone that reins in the amber’s sweetness, while suede-soft suede adds a matte, skin-close leather that feels like dock-worn boat shoes rather than a polished jacket. The dry-down stays low, a skin-scent haze where patchouli’s quiet cocoa and suede’s suede dominate, leaving only a ghost of 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.
