Hakama
Bergamot lands bright but thin, immediately pierced by clove’s hot, dry bite that darkens the citrus into something medicinal.
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.
- Soft Spicy80
- Amber60
- Smoky60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Clove
- Nutmeg
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot lands bright but thin, immediately pierced by clove’s hot, dry bite that darkens the citrus into something medicinal. Nutmeg slides in behind, adding a dusty, slightly sweet woodiness that bridges the spice to the resinous base. Frankincse smolders first, its lemon-peel smoke lifting the spices while labdanum pours a leathery, wine-dark amber that clings to skin. Musk stays close, a skin-warmed saltiness that keeps the resins from turning syrupy and lets the scent collapse into a soft, incense-laced shadow within two hours. Projection stays polite, a one-foot aura perfect for cool office days or quiet evening cafés.
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.