Nordic Fougère
Black pepper snaps open Nordic Fougère with a cool, dry crackle that quickly picks up basil’s green-bitter edge and cardamom’s citrusy lift, forming a brisk aromatic top that feels like chilled mountain air.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open Nordic Fougère with a cool, dry crackle that quickly picks up basil’s green-bitter edge and cardamom’s citrusy lift, forming a brisk aromatic top that feels like chilled mountain air. The spices stay crisp rather than warm, hovering above the skin for twenty minutes before the heart phase collapses into the base. Sandalwood takes over first, its clean creaminess muting the peppery residue while vanilla adds a soft, almost milky sweetness that keeps the wood from turning austere. Patchouli enters last, earthy and lightly camphorous, tethering the vanilla so the dry-down stays masculine and cool instead of gourmand. Projection sits close, creating a transparent wood-spice aura that lasts around six hours on fabric. The composition reads as a cool-weather skin-scent suited to office days or post-gym evenings when you want quiet polish without loud amber heft.
Scent twins
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