Scent of Gold
Cinnamon-laced bergamot in the opening reads sweeter than a citrus top usually does — the spice gets in early and steers the perfume warm before any flowers arrive.
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.
- Balsamic60
- Cinnamon55
- Floral55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Tobacco
- Violet
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon-laced bergamot in the opening reads sweeter than a citrus top usually does — the spice gets in early and steers the perfume warm before any flowers arrive. There's a candied edge before it dries out.
Jasmine, tobacco, and violet build the heart in unequal parts: jasmine doing most of the projection, tobacco lending a leafy bitterness underneath, violet softening the seam between them. A plum sweetness sits in the middle and ties the spice to the florals.
The base is the most familiar Trussardi move — labdanum and patchouli with vanilla rounding the edges. Smoky, resinous, dessert-adjacent without quite being a gourmand. Cool-weather evening wear.
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.
