Chords
Neroli bursts first: neroli and orange blossom pour a honeyed white-floral brightness that feels almost sticky, while bergamot slices a cool citrus edge through the sugar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- White Floral80
- Fresh50
- Honey50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Honey
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli bursts first: neroli and orange blossom pour a honeyed white-floral brightness that feels almost sticky, while bergamot slices a cool citrus edge through the sugar. As the opening settles, ylang-ylang folds in a custard-yellow creaminess that thickens the nectar, letting tobacco leaf sneak underneath with a dry, hay-like rasp that keeps the bouquet from cloying. Leather and cypriol arrive early in the dry-down, trading the floral nectar for a smoky hide that still carries a ghost of honey on its breath; twin cedars sharpen the frame, turning the skin scent into a lacquered wood-paneled room. Projection drops to arm’s length within three hours, leaving a soft-spicy, animalic murmur perfect for cool autumn nights or an intimate date.
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.
