Acamar
Lemon and bergamot open with polished citrus brightness, a clean cologne-style entry.
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.
- Violet70
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Violet
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with polished citrus brightness, a clean cologne-style entry. There's no fruit-sweet softening — just the bitter-zest snap of the two notes blending.
The heart pivots noticeably: patchouli, violet, and rose. Patchouli's earthy brown depth pulls the perfume away from its bright start, while violet adds a powdery cool and rose contributes classical floral roundness. The transition is dramatic, from sunshine to twilight.
Amber and musk close with a warm resinous finish. Amber rounds out the patchouli's earthiness with quiet sweetness, while musk extends the floral tail close to skin. Overall it reads as a citrus-to-violet-to-amber arc with an old-world quietness throughout.
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.
