Begum
Begum opens classical — lemon and bergamot over freesia, the citrus crisp and well-tailored, the freesia giving a soft floral lift behind it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose80
- Amber60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBegum opens classical — lemon and bergamot over freesia, the citrus crisp and well-tailored, the freesia giving a soft floral lift behind it. The opening reads as old-school chypre territory before quickly turning floral.
The heart is a stacked rose-and-white-floral composition: Bulgarian and damask rose with ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, and iris all in close range. It's lush without being soapy, with the iris pulling things slightly powdery.
The base is built for staying power — sandalwood, rosewood, vetiver, amber, vanilla, patchouli, musk — a textbook polished oriental floor that softens the florals into something resinous and warm. Wear it when the evening is long and the dress code is real.
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.
