Paradoxe
Bergamot opens briefly, giving way quickly to a dense floral heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Tuberose90
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly, giving way quickly to a dense floral heart. Tuberose leads, rich and waxy, supported by jasmine and ylang-ylang that push the composition toward something almost narcotic. Iris adds a cool, powdery counterpoint that keeps the flowers from collapsing into sweetness.
The base shifts the character significantly. Incense introduces a dry, resinous smokiness, and leather grounds everything with an animalic edge. Amber ties the base together with warmth, while musk softens the transition.
Overall, this is a heavy, structured floral built for evening wear. The contrast between the lush florals and the austere base is deliberate and gives the fragrance real presence and staying power.
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.
