Sensual Dreams
Bergamot flashes bitter-green for thirty seconds, then tuberose muscles in, buttery and rubbery, dragging ylang-ylang’s banana sweetness like a silk train.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes bitter-green for thirty seconds, then tuberose muscles in, buttery and rubbery, dragging ylang-ylang’s banana sweetness like a silk train. The white floral block sits heavy, almost oily, until tonka and vanilla melt underneath, forming a warm crème-anglaise that softens the petals rather than hiding them. Patchouli and vetiver thread an earthy, slightly smoky backbone through the cream, while benzoin resin and castoreum add a quiet leathery growl that keeps the bouquet from floating. After two hours the flowers recede, leaving a skin-sticky musk glazed with toasted tonka and a streak of sour castoreum that reads as clean skin warmed by sunlight. Projection stays within handshake range; best for temperate evenings when you want noticed intimacy, not announcement.
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.
