Intense Touch
Black pepper and rosemary crackle open the scent with a dry, resinous bite that quickly sweetens as crisp apple folds into a double dose of tonka bean, creating a warm, slightly coumarin-hay heart.
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.
- Leather60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Rosemary
- Rosemary
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Tonka Bean
- Tonka Bean
- Apple
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and rosemary crackle open the scent with a dry, resinous bite that quickly sweetens as crisp apple folds into a double dose of tonka bean, creating a warm, slightly coumarin-hay heart. The apple’s aqueous lift keeps the tonka from turning sugary, while the lingering herbal edge of rosemary threads continuity through the transition. Once the top dissipates, the base stacks sandalwood and guaiac into a smooth, blond-wood platform, letting leathery castoreum-style smokiness and patchouli’s cocoa-earth provide shadow and traction. Musks fluff the woods so the fragrance hovers just above skin, projecting a clean-athletic aura for about six hours before tapering to a cedar-tonka skin scent. Cool mornings, gym bags, and casual office days fit its low-key but persistent presence.
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.
