Dark Temptation
Dark Temptation opens with a bright flash of ginger and pear—less fruit salad than spiced sweetness, the pear lending a soft, syrupy quality that quickly warms.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Vanilla75
- Amber55
- Aromatic50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Pear
- Sage
- Basil
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readDark Temptation opens with a bright flash of ginger and pear—less fruit salad than spiced sweetness, the pear lending a soft, syrupy quality that quickly warms. The aromatic heart of sage and basil adds an unexpected green snap, though it never fully shakes the sugary foundation beneath.
What emerges is a straightforward gourmand anchored by amber, vanilla, and a whisper of patchouli. The vanilla dominates, plush and unapologetic, reminiscent of chocolate without listing cocoa—a trick of warmth and depth rather than literal notes.
This is unabashedly sweet, designed for younger wearers who want presence without complexity. It leans casual, evening-friendly, and built for accessibility rather than nuance. The aromatic herbs provide brief relief but ultimately surrender to the vanilla-amber embrace that defines the fragrance from first spray to final fade.
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.
