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Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick citric spark that vanishes within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Smoky90
- Amber70
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Frankincense
- Cypriol
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a quick citric spark that vanishes within minutes. The heart is skipped entirely; the scent plunges straight into a resinous base where frankincense and labdanum fuse into a smoky-ambered haze, their balsamic sweetness cut by cypriol’s dry, leathery earth. Patchouli adds a muted cocoa-like darkness, anchoring the incense so it smolders rather than soars. Over hours the smoke relaxes into a soft, skin-close amber that smells like extinguished candles on old wood. Projection stays intimate, a personal aura rather than a trail, and the composition feels purpose-built for cool evenings when you want quiet depth without announcement.
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.
