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Bergamot opens with a bright citric snap that quickly folds into roasted coffee, creating a dry espresso bitterness that strips the fruit of sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
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The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Galbanum
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a bright citric snap that quickly folds into roasted coffee, creating a dry espresso bitterness that strips the fruit of sweetness. Galbanum enters sharp and resinous, pushing the coffee toward an almost medicinal green-smoke edge while the citrus embers fade to a faint sparkle on top. Guaiac wood and vetiver build a dry, ashy wood platform that carries the coffee note into the base without adding cream or sugar; cedar keeps the grain linear, benzoin offers a quiet caramel glaze, and musk locks the accord close to skin. After ninety minutes the scent relaxes into a cool, pencil-shaving wood with a ghost of coffee grounds lingering in the folds.
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