Bois Rouge
Bergamot opens with a brief citrus flash before cardamom and lavender assert themselves — the spice is dry and restrained, never warm-sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a brief citrus flash before cardamom and lavender assert themselves — the spice is dry and restrained, never warm-sweet. Jasmine and lily of the valley add a pale floral layer that reads more structural than perfumey.
Patchouli and guaiac wood shift the mid-section into smoky, resinous territory. Cedar and leather begin emerging, giving the fragrance a distinctly dry, raw quality. The leather here leans slightly animalic rather than polished.
Tonka, sandalwood, amber, and vanilla form the base — but the leather and vetiver prevent these from reading as soft or gourmand. The dry-down is rich, complex, and smoky-woody with a lasting presence.
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.
