A Better Man
Bergamot provides a clean citrus opener before the composition settles into its base, where vetiver, ambroxan, and patchouli share the structural work.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Ginger
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot provides a clean citrus opener before the composition settles into its base, where vetiver, ambroxan, and patchouli share the structural work. The vetiver introduces a dry, earthy smokiness; ambroxan contributes a clean, skin-amplifying warmth; patchouli adds earthy depth.
The repeated listing of base notes suggests their centrality — this wears as an earthy, woody-ambery masculine with bergamot providing little more than an entry point. Musk ties the dry-down into a smooth, close-to-skin finish. An uncomplicated aromatic-earthy construction, best for casual and work contexts where something clean and grounded is appropriate.
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.
