Fighting Temptation
Lime and bergamot open with a brisk citrus snap that feels edged like a chilled gin fizz, the lime's tart pith cutting through the bergamot's softer oil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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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- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Moss
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLime and bergamot open with a brisk citrus snap that feels edged like a chilled gin fizz, the lime's tart pith cutting through the bergamot's softer oil. Freesia lands quickly, its cool watery petals stretching the citrus brightness rather than replacing it, so the heart stays transparent instead of sweet. Moss and Virginia cedar arrive together, cedar giving dry pencil-wood structure while moss supplies a damp-leaf humidity that blunts any sharpness. Patchouli spreads earthy chocolate under that forest floor, and a clean white musk lifts the composition so it never turns heavy or bitter. The result is a brisk woody-citrus skin scent that stays within arm's length for a workday, then softens to a cedar-moss whisper on cotton. Projection sits at office-safe levels, making it an easy warm-weather companion for casual Fridays or weekend errands.
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.
