Chypre Shot
Saffron, cardamom, and bergamot open with a spiced citrus jolt — warm and slightly metallic from the saffron, brightened by bergamot, rounded by cardamom.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Peony
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron, cardamom, and bergamot open with a spiced citrus jolt — warm and slightly metallic from the saffron, brightened by bergamot, rounded by cardamom. The opening has clear chypre ambitions from the first moments.
Black pepper sharpens the heart while coffee introduces a dark, roasted quality. Peony sits underneath as a soft floral buffer, though the spice and coffee together mostly dominate this stage. It reads drier and more austere than sweet.
Labdanum, oakmoss, patchouli, and amber form a classic chypre base — resinous and earthy, with the oakmoss providing that dry, forest-floor character the genre depends on. The drydown is the clearest statement: dark, mossy, and resinous with a bitter-sweet edge from the coffee lingering above.
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.
