Umbra
Orange, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a familiar citrus brightness, but oakmoss and myrrh arrive quickly, pulling the scent toward something denser and earthier.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Balsamic60
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readOrange, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a familiar citrus brightness, but oakmoss and myrrh arrive quickly, pulling the scent toward something denser and earthier. The contrast is immediate — sunny top notes set against a resinous, slightly smoky base.
Jasmine and lily of the valley bridge the gap in the heart, adding a green-floral quality that softens the heavier base materials. Tonka bean and black pepper round the edges, lending a warm spice and faint sweetness without overshadowing the moss.
The result is a chypre-leaning composition where the earthy-balsamic base dominates the drydown. It reads cool and deliberate rather than warm or inviting.
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.
