Morning Chess
Bergamot opens with a clean, slightly bitter citrus snap, but the sharpness is brief.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a clean, slightly bitter citrus snap, but the sharpness is brief. Galbanum cuts in at the heart with its unmistakable bracing green, sap-bleeding-from-a-stem character that defines much of the early experience.
Leather emerges alongside the galbanum, dry and slightly smoky rather than soft or suede-like, giving the green an almost oilcloth quality. As the heart fades, patchouli takes over with an earthy, rooty depth that pulls everything into shadow.
The overall character is brisk, slightly austere, and architectural, evoking polished wood furniture and damp gardens after rain. It suits cooler weather, daytime wear, and anyone drawn to compositions that feel more cerebral than ingratiating.
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.
