Illuminare
The opening is a brief bergamot lift, clean and slightly bittersweet, that reads polished but unhurried in the first minute.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Osmanthus
- Tonka Bean
- Cedar
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a brief bergamot lift, clean and slightly bittersweet, that reads polished but unhurried in the first minute. There is no fanfare to it.
The heart turns floral and faintly fruit-tinged: magnolia gives a creamy lemon-flower glow while osmanthus adds a soft apricot-tea inflection underneath. The middle reads sheer rather than dense, the two flowers complementing rather than competing.
Tonka, cedar, suede and musk land the close with a soft warm-leather skin layer, slightly powdered at the edges. Overall the character is a polite floral-suede with a quiet vanillic warmth, suited to office or evening wear in cooler weather, content to sit close to the skin rather than project.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
