Pallas Athene
Pink pepper crackles against bergamot's bright zest, creating an effervescent citrus-spice opening that feels both crisp and slightly rosy.
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.
- Fresh50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Peony
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles against bergamot's bright zest, creating an effervescent citrus-spice opening that feels both crisp and slightly rosy. The heart folds peony's aqueous petals around violet's cool powder, while rose adds a soft, jammy warmth that prevents the florals from turning too icy. As the base emerges, Mysore sandalwood's creamy wood anchors the composition, letting vetiver's grassy smoke and patchouli's earthy leaf twine through vanilla's mellow sweetness. Iris butter smooths the transition, lending a suede-like finish that keeps amber from becoming too resinous. Projection stays at arm's length for roughly six hours, making it office-friendly yet present enough for after-work drinks. The scent reads spring-early fall, thriving in mild humidity where the violet-iris accord can breathe without turning chalky.
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.
