Arabica
Coffee dominates from the first spray, its dark-roast bitterness cutting through lemon's bright acid and bergamot's peppery edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
- Lily of the Valley
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readCoffee dominates from the first spray, its dark-roast bitterness cutting through lemon's bright acid and bergamot's peppery edge. The heart keeps the coffee forward but softens it with sandalwood's creamy lactones while lily of the valley adds a clean, muguet lift that prevents the composition from turning too bitter. Cedar's pencil-sharp dryness and amber's resinous warmth arrive early in the dry-down, stretching the coffee note into a woody-roasted accord that lingers for hours. Musk blankets the final skin phase, turning the coffee-wood tandem into something softly intimate rather than aggressively roasted. Projection stays within arm's length throughout, making it office-safe yet distinctive. Works best in cool weather where the coffee's roasted depth can breathe without overheating.
Scent twins
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