New York Intense
Patricia de Nicolaï opens New York Intense with aromatic-citrus brightness: lemon and bergamot provide lift, thyme adding its slightly medicinal herbal dimension.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Bergamot40
- Incense40
- Cinnamon40
- Vanilla40
- Black Pepper40
By the editors · 2 min readPatricia de Nicolaï opens New York Intense with aromatic-citrus brightness: lemon and bergamot provide lift, thyme adding its slightly medicinal herbal dimension. The intensification becomes felt in the heart — cinnamon, black pepper, and clove push firmly into spiced-aromatic territory, lavender working to contain the heat but ultimately conceding it. This is the correct outcome; the name means it. The base is substantial and complex: frankincense and styrax provide resinous smoke, oakmoss gives earthy depth, patchouli extends the oriental arc, and vanilla softens the close. Musk carries the trail. A structured, deliberately composed aromatic oriental in the French tradition — generous in the base, worth the patience its development demands.
