Manteuse
Bergamot cuts through first, bright and slightly resinous, before leather asserts itself with dry, almost smoky authority.
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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.
- Leather90
- Honey80
- Balsamic70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Honey
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot cuts through first, bright and slightly resinous, before leather asserts itself with dry, almost smoky authority. There is nothing hesitant about this opening — it is direct and deliberate.
In the heart, labdanum deepens the leather while honey adds a sticky, animalic pull. Sandalwood provides a creamy buffer that keeps the composition from tipping into severity. The balance between sweetness and animalic warmth here is its most interesting quality.
Vanilla and opoponax settle the base into balsamic amber territory, while patchouli adds a dark, earthy undercurrent. The overall effect is dense, resinous, and skin-close — a heavy oriental that rewards patience in colder air.
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.
