18 Orchid
Bergamot flashes first, a quick metallic citrus that shears away within minutes, leaving the field open for amber to dominate.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Amber
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes first, a quick metallic citrus that shears away within minutes, leaving the field open for amber to dominate. Amber here is dry and resinous, more labdanum than opulent, pressed flat by a vanillic tonka tandem that turns the heart into a powdery almond skin. The tonka adds a faint hay edge, keeping the vanilla from full custard while both sugars slowly sink into the amber, producing a soft, skin-hugging musk that smells like warm, previously worn cashmere discovered the next morning. Projection stays polite, a one-foot halo for three hours before collapsing to a whisper of blond woods, making it an easy office choice for cool fall days when you want comfort without announcing dessert.
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.
