Bohemia Excelsior
Lemon opens bright and slightly bitter — a clean citrus peel without the candied softness of bergamot, giving the entry a slightly austere quality.
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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens bright and slightly bitter — a clean citrus peel without the candied softness of bergamot, giving the entry a slightly austere quality. There's no green or aromatic counterweight, so the lemon transitions quickly into the heart.
Jasmine and pink pepper form a sharp floral-spicy middle. Jasmine adds creamy white-floral warmth with an indolic undercurrent; pink pepper contributes a peppery rose-tinged prickle that keeps the jasmine from going lush. The middle pulls the composition into refined unisex territory.
Amber, patchouli, and iris anchor a dressy base. Iris brings powdery, slightly carroty-cool elegance; amber adds resinous warmth; patchouli grounds the iris in earthy purple depth. Polished citrus-floral with powdery-iris drydown — transitional-season, evening-friendly in cool weather.
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.
