Unscripted
The opening is sharper than most fougère starts — black pepper crackling against cardamom, anise giving a thin licorice-cool lift.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Anise
- Lavender
- Fig
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is sharper than most fougère starts — black pepper crackling against cardamom, anise giving a thin licorice-cool lift. It reads modern and slightly mineral rather than warm, which sets up the rest.
The middle is where the composition actually distinguishes itself. Lavender keeps the aromatic backbone, but fig and violet pull the heart into something more textured: fig adds a milky, slightly bitter density, violet a powdery floral cool. Together they keep the fragrance from sliding into standard barbershop territory.
The dry-down is earthy and dry — vetiver and patchouli with cedar threading through. Projects moderately, lasts the better part of a workday, and lands as a versatile spice-aromatic rather than a single-occasion scent.
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.
