Shimmering Heat
Plum, peach, and bergamot open with ripe, juicy immediacy, clove and pink pepper adding a light prickling warmth beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Fruity70
- Vanilla60
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Pink Pepper
- Peach
- Clove
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readPlum, peach, and bergamot open with ripe, juicy immediacy, clove and pink pepper adding a light prickling warmth beneath. Freesia keeps things from feeling too heavy, its clean, slightly green character balancing the fruit.
In the heart, jasmine and rose bring a full, rounded florality — not delicate, but lush. Violet adds a soft powdery counterpoint. This is a confident floral rather than a restrained one.
The base deepens considerably: patchouli and oakmoss ground the composition, while benzoin and vanilla tip it toward the gourmand. Chocolate reads as a dark, bittersweet undercurrent rather than confection. The dry-down is dense and warm, sitting close to the skin.
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.
