The Infidels
Pink pepper opens with a dry, slightly rosy crackle — not sharp, more peppery-pretty — leading quickly into a balsamic core where myrrh and opoponax pour in their dark, resinous syrup.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Magnolia
- Myrrh
- Ylang-Ylang
- Opoponax
- Iris
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper opens with a dry, slightly rosy crackle — not sharp, more peppery-pretty — leading quickly into a balsamic core where myrrh and opoponax pour in their dark, resinous syrup.
Magnolia, ylang-ylang, and may rose drape over that resin like silk over polished wood, with iris adding a powdery, vegetal cool that keeps the bouquet from going gourmand. The middle is dense, ceremonial, faintly smoky.
The base is a long woody chord — sandalwood, cedar, vetiver, patchouli — knotted with amber. Everything reads sumptuous and slow-burning, a resinous floral-woody with the gravity of incense rather than the lift of a perfumed garden.
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.
