Pierre de Velay No. 1
Bergamot opens bright and crystalline, a brief citrus flash that parts quickly for a plush white-floral heart where jasmine’s indolic creaminess merges with orange blossom’s honeyed sparkle and May rose’s cool, tea-like petals.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- May Rose
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens bright and crystalline, a brief citrus flash that parts quickly for a plush white-floral heart where jasmine’s indolic creaminess merges with orange blossom’s honeyed sparkle and May rose’s cool, tea-like petals. The base unfurls in slow motion: sandalwood’s milky warmth meets cedar’s dry pencil shavings, while labdanum and benzoin pour molten amber resin over vanilla’s soft custard; saffron adds a leathery, hay-tinged glow that keeps the sweetness in check. Ambergris and musk lend a salty, skin-like glow that lingers for hours, pulling the florals into a suede-lined dry-down that smells lived-in rather than displayed. Projection stays at arm’s length for most of the day, then settles to a whispering skin scent after eight hours. Cool autumn evenings, a dark blazer, and low lighting feel like the intended stage.
Scent twins
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