Cypress Cedar
Mint and pink pepper open cool and prickly, the mint giving an immediate icy lift while the pink pepper adds a soft rosy-spicy warmth at the edges.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Pink Pepper
- Black Pepper
- Cedar
- Moss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readMint and pink pepper open cool and prickly, the mint giving an immediate icy lift while the pink pepper adds a soft rosy-spicy warmth at the edges. Brief but distinct.
Black pepper and cedar build the heart into something dry, lean, and woody-spicy — pepper amplifying the cedar's pencil-shaving character, the wood pushing back to keep the spice from going abrasive. There's no sweetness or floral counterweight by design.
Moss, vetiver, patchouli, and musk close out the composition with a green-earthy floor that nods to chypre territory without going full retro. The overall character is a fresh-spicy woody with a damp-earthy base — gender-neutral leaning masculine, projects modestly, suits cooler-weather casual and outdoor contexts where austerity reads as confident.
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.
