Bergamask
Bergamask opens with a tart, nearly medicinal brightness—bergamot stripped of sweetness, more pith than peel.
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.
- Citrus65
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBergamask opens with a tart, nearly medicinal brightness—bergamot stripped of sweetness, more pith than peel. The citrus feels deliberate and unsoftened, a controlled acidity that doesn't rush to please. As it settles, pale florals emerge without fanfare: lavender that reads herbal rather than soapy, lily of the valley's green chill, a whisper of orange blossom that stays close to the skin.
What endures is musk and cedar in a close embrace, the wood lending structure without weight. The composition stays linear and restrained, never blooming into lushness or warmth. It's the olfactory equivalent of linen sheets in a whitewashed room—clean in an austere sense, not a commercial one.
This suits those who want presence without projection, formality without fuss. It wears like a second skin that happens to smell of bergamot rind and dry woods, intended for someone comfortable with understatement.
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.
