Intimate
Gardenia, bergamot, and rose open with the gardenia's narcotic, slightly mushroomy white-floral richness leading, rose adding warm pink depth, and bergamot lifting the bouquet briefly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral65
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia, bergamot, and rose open with the gardenia's narcotic, slightly mushroomy white-floral richness leading, rose adding warm pink depth, and bergamot lifting the bouquet briefly. The entry feels old-Hollywood lush.
The heart turns to sandalwood, jasmine, patchouli, and Virginia cedar, building a creamy-earthy floral middle where the jasmine darkens and the patchouli adds head-shop bitterness underneath. Cedar's pencil-sharp dryness gives structure.
The base anchors on amber, castoreum, and musk: castoreum brings a leathery animalic warmth with a faint sweaty edge, while amber adds resinous golden weight. The drydown is dense and animalic-floral, with the leather-musk and gardenia each holding longest. Vintage character, built for cool-weather evenings.
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.
