Kasanga
Kasanga opens with bergamot — aromatic, slightly citrusy, establishing a composed and polished foundation before receding to make room for the base.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Coconut
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readKasanga opens with bergamot — aromatic, slightly citrusy, establishing a composed and polished foundation before receding to make room for the base.
Vetiver, benzoin, amber, vanilla, cedar, and patchouli create a rich, resinous base. Benzoin and vanilla together produce a sweet, balsamic warmth; vetiver adds earthy-smoky contrast; patchouli deepens the composition; cedar supplies structure. The base is layered and generous.
Kasanga follows a familiar trajectory — bright opening, complex resinous close — but executes it with a satisfying density in the dry-down. The benzoin-vanilla-patchouli core is the composition's character. Best in cooler weather where the base has room to develop and project.
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.




