Coal
Pink pepper crackles at the opening, scattering rosy heat across dry cedar planks.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cedar
- Papyrus
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles at the opening, scattering rosy heat across dry cedar planks. The heart darkens as papyrus adds a brittle, ink-like greenness that makes the cedar feel sharper, almost splintered. Sandalwood arrives early in the base, creaming the edges while still letting the wood stay rugged; leather follows, matte and lightly tarry, stretching a dark hide over the sandalwood. Patchouli deepens the shadows, earthy and tobacco-tinged, anchoring the composition in cool loam rather than sweetness. Wear is linear but dense: close musky leather with a steady cedar hum, projecting arm-length for six hours then settling as a skin-print of soft-spice and wood. Cool evenings, dark jeans, concrete balconies.
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.
