Rose Ardoise
Pink pepper and nutmeg open with a dry, spiced sharpness — the pepper crackles and the nutmeg adds body without sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Rose
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and nutmeg open with a dry, spiced sharpness — the pepper crackles and the nutmeg adds body without sweetness. The opening feels taut and intentional.
Sage enters the heart alongside rose, and the pairing is striking: aromatic, almost medicinal herb against a cool floral. The rose doesn't read as romantic here — it reads as structural, holding the herbal and spiced elements in tension.
Leather and vetiver anchor the dry-down with earthy, dry persistence. Ambroxan lifts the base and adds a skin-like warmth that extends the wear without sweetening it. The overall character is sharp, herbal, and leathery — austere rather than decorative.
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.
