Miraceti
Black Pepper crackles first, a dry, mineral spark that quickly draws Labdanum’s warm, honeyed leather into view, creating a peppery-amber haze that feels both salty and sun-baked.
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.
- Salty70
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Labdanum
- Ambrette
- Styrax
- Seaweed
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper crackles first, a dry, mineral spark that quickly draws Labdanum’s warm, honeyed leather into view, creating a peppery-amber haze that feels both salty and sun-baked. The heart adds Ambrette’s pear-skin musk and Styrax’s latex-like sheen, stretching the amber accord into something softly animalic and gently aquatic, as if sea spray clung to cured hide. As it settles, seaweed and myrrh pull the composition downward: the former adds cool, iodine-green brine, the latter a resinous, almost licorice-smoke bitterness that mutes the sweetness. Cedar arrives late, sharpening the dry-down with pencil-shave dryness so the fragrance finishes as a salty, woody skin-close haze rather than dense oriental. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, ideal for cool spring beach walks or quiet evening reading.
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.
