Secret Source
Gardenia and jasmine create a creamy white-floral front that blankets the tart black-currant sparkle and lemon–bergamot citrus flash, turning the opening both lush and mouth-watering.
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.
- White Floral70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and jasmine create a creamy white-floral front that blankets the tart black-currant sparkle and lemon–bergamot citrus flash, turning the opening both lush and mouth-watering. The heart is skipped, so the bouquet collapses quickly into a resinous base where sandalwood’s milk and incense’s dry smoke entwine, while vetiver sharpens the wood and patchouli adds leafy-green earth. Amber and vanilla warm the underside, keeping the composition pliable so the florals never fully vanish but hover like a pale haze above the embers. On skin the scent stays close, projecting an arm-length aura for the first three hours before settling into a soft, sweet-wood skin skin-scent that endures through a workday. Cool evenings and smart-casual offices suit its polished darkness.
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.
