United Arab Emirates Spirit Of The Union
Bergamot opens with a small bright cut, then steps aside almost immediately for a dark floral heart — rose, jasmine and ylang threaded with the cassis bite of black currant.
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.
- Patchouli60
- Rose55
- Amber55
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a small bright cut, then steps aside almost immediately for a dark floral heart — rose, jasmine and ylang threaded with the cassis bite of black currant. The flowers are not pretty here. They are dense, jammy, and wound tight around resin.
The base is the real composition: oakmoss and patchouli laid against labdanum and benzoin, with civet smudging the edges and frankincense burning over the top. Pink pepper keeps a thin lift across the dry-down. It reads as a ceremonial chypre — heavy, animalic, and built for cool air rather than skin warmth.
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.
