Espionage
Bergamot opens cleanly — bright but brief, more a flick than a sustained note.
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.
- Woody60
- Earthy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Clary Sage
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly — bright but brief, more a flick than a sustained note. It hands off quickly to a heart that's the unusual choice here: amber sitting next to clary sage, the resinous warmth bumping against something herbal and slightly camphorous.
Vetiver and cedar carry the drydown. The vetiver is the sharper of the two, dragging a hint of green and earth across the wood, while cedar provides the dry, pencil-shaving spine.
It lands as an aromatic woody with an amber undercurrent — versatile enough for a daily rotation, with enough character not to disappear into the background. Reads year-round in cooler climates; better outdoors than in close quarters.
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.
