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Bergamot opens with a crisp citrus lift that quickly melds into a heart of smoky incense and powdery heliotrope.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Musky60
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Labdanum
- Heliotrope
- White Musk
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a crisp citrus lift that quickly melds into a heart of smoky incense and powdery heliotrope. Labdanum adds a resinous amber warmth that deepens as cinnamon and vanilla emerge in the base. Patchouli provides an earthy grounding alongside musky ambergris and benzoin, creating a sweet-balsamic dry-down. This composition evolves from bright to resinous-powdery over several hours, maintaining moderate projection that settles close to skin. Best suited for cool weather evenings, it offers substantial longevity with a complex, warm-spicy character.
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.
