Montabaco Flor (Fortnum & Mason Exclusive)
Cardamom and bergamot open with a cool aromatic snap that feels like crushed green pods meeting citrus oil.
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.
- Mossy70
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Freesia
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom and bergamot open with a cool aromatic snap that feels like crushed green pods meeting citrus oil. The heart layers jasmine and ylang-ylang into a plush white floral cushion, while violet keeps the bouquet airy rather than syrupy. Rose arrives late, adding a faint honeyed edge that prevents the flowers from turning soapy. Tonka and suede in the base smooth everything into a supple skin scent, ambergris lending a quiet mineral glow that reads as clean salt on warm flesh. Mossy oakmoss and sandalwood extend the dry-down for hours, projecting a polite two-foot radius of soft leather-tinted woods. Office-safe yet quietly sensual, it shines in spring and fall when temperatures hover between cool and mild.
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.