The Embrace
Bergamot provides a brief, bright citrus lift that quickly gives way to the heart notes.
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.
- Honey50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Honey
- Coffee
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot provides a brief, bright citrus lift that quickly gives way to the heart notes. Honey introduces a rich, warm, and slightly animalic sweetness that feels dense and enveloping on the skin. Coffee adds a dark, roasted character that contrasts with the honey, creating a bittersweet and gourmand accord. Madagascar vanilla brings a creamy, sweet depth that smooths out the composition, while Virginia cedar offers a dry, woody backbone. The fragrance develops from a citrusy opening into a deep, honeyed coffee and vanilla blend with a woody dry-down. It projects strongly initially, with good longevity of seven to nine hours, best worn in fall and winter for evening occasions.
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.
