De La Marque Brune
De La Marque Brune opens with black pepper and plum sharing space — peppery-fruity, the plum just sweet enough to take the bite off.
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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Plum
- Lemon
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Thyme
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readDe La Marque Brune opens with black pepper and plum sharing space — peppery-fruity, the plum just sweet enough to take the bite off. Lemon brightens the corners but stays in the background.
The heart turns aromatic and a little powdery: cinnamon and thyme together with lavender, plus a violet-tinged iris and clary sage. The mix sits in an unusual middle ground — neither fougère nor full oriental — held in tension by the spicing.
The base anchors warm-soft: white musk under sandalwood and vanilla, with cedar and patchouli giving it backbone. The drydown reads as a slightly powdered woody-spicy, comfortable in cool weather without going heavy. Longevity is moderate; sillage stays within an arm's length after the first hour. Good for office or casual cool-weather wear where something distinctive but not assertive makes sense.
Scent twins
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