James
Pink pepper crackles over bergamot's citrus brightness, the duo lifted by clary sage's herbal lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Violet Leaf
- Amber
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles over bergamot's citrus brightness, the duo lifted by clary sage's herbal lift. Violet leaf adds a cool, crushed-green facet that bridges the sparkling top into a dry amber heart, while vetiver and patchouli build a earthy, slightly smoky wood-moss base that keeps the composition grounded. As it settles, the amber softens and the musk amplifies skin warmth, letting vetiver's rooty smoke linger longest. Projection stays office-close for the first three hours before collapsing to a personal woody skin-scent. The accord reads brisk and aromatic for spring weekdays, yet the amber-patchouli tail gives enough heft for cool fall evenings.
Scent twins
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