Beauty
Pink pepper crackles first, a dry rosy spark that lifts the bergamot’s bittersweet oil into something almost effervescent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a dry rosy spark that lifts the bergamot’s bittersweet oil into something almost effervescent. The two top notes fuse into a bright, slightly woody-citrus shimmer that hovers just above the skin. Within twenty minutes, the sparkle collapses into a seamless tonka-patchouli duo: the bean’s warm hay-vanilla facet softens patchouli’s cocoa-earth roughness, creating a ambered skin musk that smells like blond tobacco stored in a cedar drawer. There is no floral heart to cushion the transition, so the scent stays linear once the opening fizz burns off, gaining only a powdery sweetness as skin heat coaxes coumarin from the tonka. Projection drops to intimate within two hours, leaving a softly spiced, faintly nutty veil that reads like a lighter, sugar-dusted take on a traditional barbershop base.
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.
