Hallucinogenic Pearl
Pink pepper and bergamot open with a dry, slightly fizzy brightness that dissipates quickly, leaving space for the real subject: orris and violet in close alliance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Violet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Violet
- Suede
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open with a dry, slightly fizzy brightness that dissipates quickly, leaving space for the real subject: orris and violet in close alliance. The orris reads starchy and cool, the violet more petal than powder, and together they settle into a suede accord that softens both without erasing their definition.
The suede base keeps things restrained rather than plush — it reads as texture rather than warmth. Musk threads underneath, anchoring the composition without pushing it toward skin-scent territory. The overall effect is quiet and linear, a cool violet-leather duality that holds its shape through the dry-down without dramatic shifts.
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.
