Carte Blanche
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic snap that clears the stage for almond to step forward with its soft, marzipan sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Almond
- Benzoin
- Ambergris
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick metallic snap that clears the stage for almond to step forward with its soft, marzipan sweetness. Almond pairs with benzoin’s resinous vanilla accent, building a powdery, almost fluffy heart that feels like sifted icing sugar. Ambergris creeps in next, lending a salty, skin-warm facet that keeps the confection from turning syrupy, while Madagascar vanilla deepens the accord into a creamy, slightly salty custard. Musk shepherds the dry-down, turning the earlier bakery glow into a clean, close-to-skin aura that lingers for hours with gentle, nutty warmth. Projection stays polite, wafting no farther than arm’s length, making it office-safe yet addictive for intimate encounters. Cool autumn days and early spring nights showcase its cosy, almond-laden glow best.
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.
