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Bergamot snaps open with a cool, metallic citrus edge that quickly warms as crisp apple flesh swells the heart, the fruit’s watery sugars softening the lavender’s camphor bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fruity60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Apple
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot snaps open with a cool, metallic citrus edge that quickly warms as crisp apple flesh swells the heart, the fruit’s watery sugars softening the lavender’s camphor bite. Pink pepper adds a fleeting rosy sparkle that bridges the tart top into the greener, slightly smoky vetiver core, while labdanum lays down a leathery amber cushion that keeps the apple from turning candied. Over the first hour the composition tilts from bright orchard to dry scrubland: patchouli’s dusty chocolate earthiness absorbs the remaining fruit sugars, leaving a matte, tobacco-tinged wood that stays close to skin. Projection sits at conversational radius, perfect for spring office days or cool summer cafés, and the tidy dry-down survives a workday without re-spritzing.
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.
