Karst
Pink pepper and bergamot open dry and slightly austere — there's no juice here, just a clean peppery citrus that feels more architectural than playful.
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.
- Herbal65
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Cumin
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open dry and slightly austere — there's no juice here, just a clean peppery citrus that feels more architectural than playful.
The heart turns mineral and aromatic. Sage and rosemary lay down a cool herbal carpet, while cumin adds an unexpected, faintly skin-warm spice that pulls the composition toward something humid and bodied. The middle reads as sun-baked stone after rain, herbs crushed underfoot.
Sandalwood, vetiver, and cedar settle the base into a clean dry-wood close, vetiver adding a roots-and-earth depth. The whole composition is restrained and slightly arid, an aromatic-mineral woody that suggests landscape more than person — closer in feel to a ritual than a perfume.
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.
