Ultimate
Pink pepper and bergamot open with a bright, lightly spiced freshness.
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.
- Amber60
- Leather60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open with a bright, lightly spiced freshness. Magnolia, jasmine, and freesia form a white floral heart that leans clean and slightly creamy — the magnolia in particular adding a smooth, almost lactic quality. Mandarin from the general notes sits beneath, providing soft citrus warmth that bridges opening and heart.
Then the base shifts register entirely: leather and olibanum introduce a dark, resinous character that recontextualizes the light floral opening. Labdanum, amber, and patchouli deepen the contrast further. The structural tension between fresh-floral opener and heavy oriental base is not entirely resolved — and that friction is exactly what makes this interesting.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
