Giullare
Seaweed, bergamot and coffee open in a striking three-way contrast — salty-marine, citrus-bitter, roasted-dark.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Seaweed
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Rosemary
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
By the editors · 2 min readSeaweed, bergamot and coffee open in a striking three-way contrast — salty-marine, citrus-bitter, roasted-dark. The opening reads ambitious and a little disorienting, more conceptual than commercial.
A wide aromatic-fruity heart follows — rosemary, Bulgarian rose, ylang-ylang, peach, thyme and atlas cedar. Rosemary and thyme keep the herbal thread alive, the rose and ylang fatten the centre with floral sweetness, and peach adds a lactonic stone-fruit warmth. Cedar starts dragging things toward the wood base.
Pineapple, birch, ambergris, myrrh, patchouli, musk and caramel close out the composition. Birch adds smoke, caramel sweetens, and the marine-mineral undertone from ambergris ties back to the seaweed top. The arc is layered and unusual.
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.
