Água de Neroli
Bergamot opens bright, clean and slightly metallic, setting a crisp citrus frame that reads more cologne than oriental.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Tonka Bean
- Guaiac Wood
- Ambergris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright, clean and slightly metallic, setting a crisp citrus frame that reads more cologne than oriental. Jasmine enters within minutes, adding a transparent white-floral lift that keeps the citrus alive while softening its edges. The heart accord is light, almost effervescent, so the jasmine never turns creamy or indolic. Tonka and guaiac arrive early in the dry-down, lending a faint almond-sweet wood that stays close to the skinet. Ambergris adds a cool, salty skin-musk nuance, extending wear without adding heft. Projection stays polite, a handshake radius at best; the scent folds into laundered-cotton musk within four hours. Bright, office-safe, and heat-friendly, it behaves like a classic Brazilian cologne refreshed with modern synthetics.
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.
