Vi Et Armis
Vi et Armis opens with a sharp crack of black pepper and cardamom that feels almost martial—crisp, alert, unapologetic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky75
- Warm Spicy70
- Tobacco65
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Birch
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readVi et Armis opens with a sharp crack of black pepper and cardamom that feels almost martial—crisp, alert, unapologetic. This is not a perfume that eases you in. The spice quickly gives way to dense clouds of incense, solemn and resinous, the kind that might fill a cold stone chapel or a commander's tent before battle.
As it settles, birch tar emerges with its leathery, slightly burnt quality, mingling with dry tobacco leaf. The effect is austere and dark, more armor than velvet. There's no sweetness to soften the edges, no vanilla to smooth the smoke. It wears like a study in discipline and restraint, built for those who prefer their scents uncompromising and shadow-dark rather than seductive or easy.
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.
