Manifesto Le Parfum
Manifesto Le Parfum begins with a single, clear bergamot note — no layered citrus opening, just one note asking for attention.
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.
- Iris60
- Floral55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readManifesto Le Parfum begins with a single, clear bergamot note — no layered citrus opening, just one note asking for attention. It is a compositional statement: a fragrance confident enough in its architecture to need only one element to establish tone.
Jasmine and iris meet at the heart, a classic pairing that trades between white floral richness and a cool, starchy pallor. The iris exerts quiet authority, keeping the jasmine from becoming heady. A background trace of pear softens the combination, rounding the more angular edges with a gentle fruitiness that never breaks into sweetness.
The base is the composition's warmth — tonka bean and benzoin together create a smooth, amber-adjacent richness without the cloying weight of gourmand perfumes, while sandalwood provides clean depth beneath. The overall effect is a coherent vertical structure: bright to floral to warm, each phase distinct, nothing bleeding where it should not. Mature and exact.
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.
