Barolo
Barolo opens with a striking pairing of saffron against fig, lemon, and bergamot — an earthy, slightly exotic combination that references red wine's complexity without using a wine accord explicitly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Chocolate75
- Iris65
- Patchouli60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Lemon
- Fig
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Chocolate
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBarolo opens with a striking pairing of saffron against fig, lemon, and bergamot — an earthy, slightly exotic combination that references red wine's complexity without using a wine accord explicitly. The heart pivots around iris, chocolate, and rose: iris provides structure and powdery elegance, chocolate adds depth, and rose offers warmth, creating a trio that sits between gourmand and floral without tipping into either.
The base — vetiver, cedar, patchouli — gives the final impression a dry, woody seriousness that contrasts with the richer mid-phase and pulls the fragrance toward classic masculine territory. It holds together from top to drydown with genuine coherence. Discontinued, but well-regarded.
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.