Bergamote
A spare bergamot cologne — closer to a soliflore than a composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Musk
- Ginger
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readA spare bergamot cologne — closer to a soliflore than a composition. The opening is bright bergamot lifted by a thread of ginger that adds warmth and a slight bite, keeping the citrus from going one-dimensional. Orange blossom in the heart is a soft floral suggestion rather than a full bloom, smoothing the transition.
The base is almost transparent: white musk underneath the citrus, pulling it close to the skin. There's no wood, no resin, no spice grounding this further; the whole composition is built to evaporate gracefully rather than develop. Hot weather, daytime, when you want the impression of just-applied citrus and clean skin. Linear by design, not a flaw.
Scent twins
In this family
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