Fatale
fatale opens with a snap of pink pepper that feels more resinous than spicy, quickly folding into a tart blackcurrant brightness.
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.
- Balsamic65
- Patchouli55
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Gardenia
- Patchouli
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readfatale opens with a snap of pink pepper that feels more resinous than spicy, quickly folding into a tart blackcurrant brightness. The effect is less fruity than jammy, a purple-dark sweetness that sets the stage for what follows. Within minutes, a creamy gardenia emerges, but this isn't the white-petaled kind—it arrives dusted with patchouli and shadowed by labdanum, lending it an almost bruised richness.
The chocolate note never announces itself loudly. Instead, it weaves through the base as a cocoa-bitter undertone, deepening the musk and vanilla without tipping into gourmand territory. The overall impression is of a gardenia wearing leather and dark amber rather than lace.
This suits someone drawn to florals that refuse to play innocent, who wants presence without powder. It's assertive in cooler weather, softer in heat, and distinctly nocturnal in spirit.
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.
