Byerley
Bergamot and cardamom lead with a clean citrus-spice brightness.
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.
- Woody75
- Aromatic65
- Citrus55
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and cardamom lead with a clean citrus-spice brightness. The opening is crisp and well-structured, cardamom adding just enough warmth to keep the bergamot from feeling flat.
Guaiac wood and cedar form a dry, slightly smoky woody heart. Guaiac brings a characteristic pencil-shaving quality that blends naturally with cedar's clean dryness. There's an aromatic quality here that sits between fresh and warm.
Vetiver and amber close things out — the vetiver earthy and rooty, the amber adding a mild, warm resinous base. Byerley overall reads as a disciplined woody aromatic: structured, dry-leaning, and suited to professional or daytime settings without demanding attention.
Scent twins
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