Aksoum
Petitgrain and neroli open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into bergamot’s brighter citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Tuberose70
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and neroli open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into bergamot’s brighter citrus. Tuberose arrives next, plush and waxy, riding on orange blossom’s soapier lift so the white floral heart feels creamy rather than indolic. Sandalwood steers the dry-down toward a smooth, milk-pale wood while patchouli adds a quiet earthy hum that keeps the flowers from floating away. Musk sheathes everything in clean skin, letting the composition taper to a soft, pale suede finish that stays close. Projection sits at polite arm’s length for the first three hours, then settles into fabric and hair, making it office-safe yet quietly sensual through a warm spring afternoon.
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.