Africa
A lavender-and-bergamot opening sets a clean aromatic tone, with the lavender reading more herbal than soapy and the bergamot lending a brief citrus lift.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Iris70
- Lavender65
- Vanilla45
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readA lavender-and-bergamot opening sets a clean aromatic tone, with the lavender reading more herbal than soapy and the bergamot lending a brief citrus lift.
In the heart, jasmine and iris meet in the middle, where iris adds a cool powdery rooty depth and jasmine contributes a soft floral curve. The combination has a slightly cosmetic, lipstick-adjacent quality.
The base settles into vanilla, cedar, and musk, lending a creamy-woody floor with vanilla adding a gentle gourmand warmth and cedar keeping the powder from going too soft. The overall character is gentle, comforting, and unisex-leaning, suited to cool weather and casual or evening wear, with moderate longevity and a soft projection that stays close to the skin throughout the wear.
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.
