Pierre de Velay No. 23
Bergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Tobacco90
- Leather80
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bright and brief, a citrus spark that vanishes within minutes. The heart blooms into a humid white-floral cloud where jasmine dominates, its indolic edge amplified by ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet heft while orange blossom adds soap and violet contributes a cool, woody iris accent. That floral mass is immediately swallowed by the base: tonka bean’s warm hay, sandalwood’s creamy lactones, and a wall of castoreum-style leather streaked with civet and ambergris create a heavy, almost animalic tobacco-honey effect that feels decades older than the opening. Over hours the leather dries to a brittle, ashy plate atop oakmoss and vetiver, leaving a skin-print of sweet benzoin, vanilla and musk that smells like vintage handbag lining. Projection stays close after the first hour yet lasts well past midnight; best for cool evenings when wool can buffer its growl.
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.
