Alameda
The opening lifts on lily and bergamot for a clean, faintly aldehydic floral introduction that reads tailored from the first minute.
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.
- Leather70
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Rose
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening lifts on lily and bergamot for a clean, faintly aldehydic floral introduction that reads tailored from the first minute. There is an old-school polish to it.
The heart goes powdery as orris takes over, dry and faintly carroty, with rose adding a darker centre. The composition reads architectural rather than romantic, structure first and prettiness second, the iris doing most of the middle work.
Amber, patchouli and castoreum build a smoky leather close with a soft animalic shadow. Overall the character is a powdery iris-and-leather chypre, dressed and slightly austere, suited to formal cool-weather wear where its restraint reads as elegance and its leather depth feels intentional rather than rough.
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.
