Apollon
Pink pepper crackles first, a bright, rosy heat sharpened by nutmeg’s dry woodiness, creating an immediate spicy sparkle that feels cool rather than warm.
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.
- Patchouli80
- Amber70
- Soft Spicy60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Patchouli
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a bright, rosy heat sharpened by nutmeg’s dry woodiness, creating an immediate spicy sparkle that feels cool rather than warm. The heart folds earthy patchouli into airy freesia: the flower’s green-cucumber lift keeps the patchouli from turning heavy, while the patchouli gives the freesia a duskier, leaf-stained edge. Over the first hour the spices recede and the woods rise; sandalwood’s creamy dust meets amber’s golden resin, both cushioned by vanilla’s soft, slightly buttery swirl so nothing feels dry or brittle. Projection stays polite, tracing a forearm-length halo for five hours before collapsing into a skin-glow of spiced wood and faint powdered sugar. Cool fall days, smart-casual offices, travel days when you want quiet warmth without gourmand sweetness.
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.
