Venetian Bergamot
The opening flares bright and peppery—bergamot lifted by a twin kick of black and pink pepper, with ginger adding warmth beneath the citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Citrus85
- Warm Spicy70
- Woody70
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Magnolia
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening flares bright and peppery—bergamot lifted by a twin kick of black and pink pepper, with ginger adding warmth beneath the citrus. It's less about sunny Italian orchards than about bergamot as raw material, stripped of sweetness and given an almost mineral edge by the spice accord.
As it settles, white florals emerge but remain disciplined. Gardenia and magnolia fold into ylang-ylang without turning heady or indolic, their creaminess tempered by cedar's dryness. The florals feel contained, almost abstract, as if viewed through gauze.
The base brings soft focus: sandalwood and cashmeran create a woody-musky haze, with tonka bean and amber adding just enough sweetness to keep things from turning austere. This is bergamot reimagined as structure rather than sparkle—a woody floral that favors restraint over radiance, suitable for those who prefer their citrus serious.
Scent twins
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