Enigma
Enigma opens with a disorienting sweetness—ripe peach against neroli's bitter edge, bergamot cutting through like a knife through cream.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Floral80
- Woody75
- Amber75
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readEnigma opens with a disorienting sweetness—ripe peach against neroli's bitter edge, bergamot cutting through like a knife through cream. The effect is lush but uneasy, less fruity fragrance than velvet curtain drawn across something deeper. Within minutes, the white florals arrive in force: jasmine and ylang-ylang thick enough to leave a residue in the air, rose and heliotrope adding powder and breath.
The base steadies everything. Sandalwood and patchouli provide wood and earth beneath the opulence, while ambergris gives a saline, skin-like warmth that keeps the composition from tipping into pure confection. Vanilla and musk linger close, soft but persistent.
This is evening-wear perfume in the old sense—deliberate, enveloping, designed to announce presence without raising its voice. It suits anyone willing to carry weight, to be remembered rather than merely noticed.
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.
