Classic
Neroli and bergamot open with a clean, slightly bitter citrus-floral chord — neroli's white-petal honeyed brightness paired with bergamot's polished edge.
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.
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- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and bergamot open with a clean, slightly bitter citrus-floral chord — neroli's white-petal honeyed brightness paired with bergamot's polished edge. The opening reads tidy and traditional.
Cardamom carries the heart on its own, dry and aromatic with a slightly menthol-cool lift, giving the composition an unexpected spice-forward middle that's neither sweet nor heavy. The simplicity of the heart keeps focus on the cardamom's faceted character. Musk in the base settles into a soft, laundered drydown with a clean skin-glow — no overt sweetness, no woody mass, just a quiet musk frame. The overall character is a polished citrus-spice cologne with a clean musk tail, restrained and well-mannered, suited to daily wear rather than statement moments.
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.
