Alia
Alia opens bright and sharp — pink pepper rasp over bergamot and lemon, the kind of citrus-spice flash that stays only a few minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Oud60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Artemisia
- Cardamom
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readAlia opens bright and sharp — pink pepper rasp over bergamot and lemon, the kind of citrus-spice flash that stays only a few minutes. Underneath, violet and cardamom soften the entry into something rounder, with artemisia adding a faintly bitter, herbal lift.
The drydown is where the perfume settles into oriental territory: cedar and vetiver give it backbone, oud lays a quiet smoky line, and patchouli and musk pull everything close to the body. The shift from peppery citrus to woody-resinous is gradual, not theatrical.
Wears well into evening and cool weather, when the base has space to bloom.
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.
