Autoportrait
The opening is deceptively bright—bergamot flares and fades, leaving room for what lies beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky75
- Woody70
- Mossy70
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Benzoin
- Musk
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is deceptively bright—bergamot flares and fades, leaving room for what lies beneath. Within minutes, frankincense and benzoin rise together, neither particularly churchy nor sweet, but somewhere between the two: resinous, slightly smoky, grounded by a clean musk that keeps the incense from drifting into solemnity. There's restraint here, a compositional clarity that feels deliberate.
As it settles, oakmoss and vetiver provide a cool, earthy backdrop, while Virginia cedar adds a pencil-shaving dryness that tempers any residual warmth. The result is less about dramatic transformation than sustained focus—a portrait in grayscale rather than color. It wears close, introspective, suited to someone who prefers scent as quiet companion rather than announcement.
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.
