Alibi
Bergamot opens briefly with a citrus snap, joined in the general accord by mandarin for a slightly sweeter brightness.
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.
- Leather75
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Leather
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens briefly with a citrus snap, joined in the general accord by mandarin for a slightly sweeter brightness. Within minutes the woods take over.
Vetiver and cedar build a dry, smoky-rooty heart, the vetiver more grassy-earthy than tarry, the cedar pencil-shaving sharp. Together they form the structural spine — austere, masculine in pitch, slightly dusty rather than juicy or warm.
The base is the main event. Leather and benzoin layer a smoky, balsamic warmth, with patchouli adding earthy depth and musk smoothing the close. The leather is supple and slightly sweet from the benzoin rather than tarry. Reads as a smooth modern leather-vetiver, evening-leaning but daytime-acceptable in cool weather. Moderate projection and respectable longevity for the style.
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.
