Chypre 1942
Bergamot opens crisp and slightly bitter, the traditional chypre cue.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Tuberose60
- Floral60
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens crisp and slightly bitter, the traditional chypre cue. From there the structure pivots toward white florals: tuberose at full creamy weight, jasmine alongside it, with rose threading a sharper line through the bouquet.
Styrax brings a warm, faintly leathery balsamic note into the heart that prevents the florals from going pure-pretty. Patchouli arrives early in the base and stays, dark and slightly earthy.
The dry-down rests on tonka, sandalwood, and an amber-leaning warmth, with the patchouli still audible underneath. Reads as a modernized chypre — the bone structure is there, but the body is plusher and warmer than a vintage reading would be.
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.
