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 11 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
- Jasmine55
- Bergamot50
- Tonka50
- Sandalwood40
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.
