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Pink pepper and mandarin spark a citrus-pepper flash that violet quickly stains purple, turning the opening from bright to bruised.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Violet80
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Leather
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and mandarin spark a citrus-pepper flash that violet quickly stains purple, turning the opening from bright to bruised. Violet’s cool powder rides over petitgrain’s bitter green, while orange blossom tries to lift the mix with clean white angles that get swallowed by the darker leather accord. The leather emerges slowly, first as a suede texture tucked beneath the florals, then as a matte skin-smelling musk that dominates the late dry-down. What begins crisp and almost sporty collapses into a close-wearing violet-leather skin scent within three hours, projection dropping to whisper range. Office-friendly in moderate doses, it favors cool spring days when its muted leather won’t overheat.
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.
