Essenza del Tempo
Ginger and bergamot lift the opening with a bright, slightly metallic snap, sharpened by ambergris and amber resins beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Iris60
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and bergamot lift the opening with a bright, slightly metallic snap, sharpened by ambergris and amber resins beneath. The top is more spice than citrus by the time it's settled.
Iris carries the heart almost alone — powdery, root-vegetable, with the cool cosmetic quality that orris brings rather than a floral one. It thins out the warm openings and gives the perfume a quieter middle than the start would suggest.
The base turns to roasted coffee against dry cedar, ending darker and woodier than the heart hinted. Office-friendly in cool weather; the coffee note keeps it from feeling too formal.
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.
