Impérial Santal
Grapefruit and bergamot open with a bright, slightly bitter snap that quickly folds into a creamy sandalwood core.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody70
- Mossy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a bright, slightly bitter snap that quickly folds into a creamy sandalwood core. The heart trio—sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli—reads as dry, blond wood streaked with cool earth; vetiver’s rooty edge keeps the creamy wood from turning sweet. Moss creeps in during the late dry-down, adding a cool, forest-floor hum that muffles the musk to skin-level softness. Projection stays polite, creating a discreet woody halo ideal for office or close-quarter travel. Wear it spring through early fall when you want clean wood without amber heft.
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.
