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Petitgrain and black pepper crackle together in a dry, green-citrus spark that lifts the sweeter orange-grapefruit tandem.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Black Pepper
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and black pepper crackle together in a dry, green-citrus spark that lifts the sweeter orange-grapefruit tandem. Olibanum arrives early, folding waxy incense into the still-lingering grapefruit so the heart feels like citrus rind dusted with church ash. As the resin thins, vetiver and cedar split the difference: the grassier root steers the incense left toward cool earth, while clean cedarwood keeps the axis bright. Tonka warms the background with soft almond facets, yet oakmoss moss keeps the base matte rather than creamy, so the amber stays a quiet glow rather than dessert. Projection hovers arm-length for five hours then settles to a skin-forward wood-incense whisper that reads crisp rather than cosy; best for cool spring mornings or air-conditioned offices.
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.




