Or Black
Bergamot and leather open together — an unusual pairing that reads simultaneously sharp and animalic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Herbal55
- Balsamic55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Benzoin
- Tonka Bean
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and leather open together — an unusual pairing that reads simultaneously sharp and animalic. Sage arrives in the heart with a dry herbal quality that keeps the composition from leaning sweet too early. Benzoin begins softening the structure here, introducing a faint resinous warmth.
The base is where the character settles. Tonka bean, amber, and ylang-ylang create a dense, golden warmth — slightly powdery, faintly floral from the ylang, with the tonka adding a coumarin-like softness. Musk sits underneath without drawing attention.
The overall effect is a leather-amber fragrance with herbal edges and a warm, resinous dry-down — more architectural than playful, suited to cooler evenings.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
