Forte + Forte
Bergamot and grapefruit sting bright and green, their citrus oils sharpened by lavender’s cool camphor bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
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- Aromatic50
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- Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Orange
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and grapefruit sting bright and green, their citrus oils sharpened by lavender’s cool camphor bite. Petitgrain drags a bitter twig through the opening, then jasmine folds creamy white petals around clove’s dry heat while iris powders the heart with chilled violet dust. Oakmoss spreads a cool, loamy carpet that drinks the citrus oils, turning them matte and forest-damp; patchouli adds earthy chocolate depth and tonka bean smokes a thin ribbon of almond-sweet hay. After two hours the scent collapses to a clean skin-musk haze salted by moss and the ghost of lavender, projecting no farther than arm’s length yet lasting past sundown. Crisp collar-shirt stuff for spring mornings and cool early-fall commutes.
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.
