Ballets Rouges
Bergamot opens with a quiet citrus brightness that fades quickly, leaving space for ylang-ylang and rose to step forward.
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.
- Floral90
- Patchouli60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- May Rose
- Oakmoss
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a quiet citrus brightness that fades quickly, leaving space for ylang-ylang and rose to step forward. The ylang-ylang is full and slightly narcotic, while the two rose materials layer a velvety warmth beneath it — together they form a dense, heady floral heart.
As the florals settle, oakmoss and patchouli anchor the composition with an earthy, green-woody foundation. Labdanum adds a resinous, slightly animalic warmth that deepens the base considerably.
Musk ties everything together with a skin-close softness. The result is a chypre-adjacent floral with genuine earthy depth — mossy and warm rather than clean or airy, and more intimate than projecting.
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.
