Poivre
Tarragon crackles first, its anise-green edge sharpened by tart black-currant bud, creating a slightly bitter, leafy opening that feels cool and shaded.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Iris80
- Yellow Floral70
- Green60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Mimosa
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon crackles first, its anise-green edge sharpened by tart black-currant bud, creating a slightly bitter, leafy opening that feels cool and shaded. Jasmine and mimosa arrive together, the jasmine lending indolic creaminess while mimosa’s powdery yellow pollen softens the edges; nutmeg threads warm spice through the florals so the heart never turns sweet. Iris butter and vanilla fold into sandalwood in the base, the iris adding a dry, carrot-seed earthiness that keeps the vanilla from custard, while oakmoss lays a cool, loamy carpet that drags the composition back toward chypre darkness. After ninety minutes the greens recede, leaving a woody-vanilla haze dusted with iris powder and the faintest trace of nutmeg heat. Sillage stays within arm’s length; best in cool weather, offices or daytime travel when you want quiet complexity without dessert.
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.
