Boadicea Nemer
Black pepper and saffron open dry and bright, with ylang-ylang adding a creamy, slightly banana-tinged floral lift.
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.
- Woody60
- Rose55
- Amber55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Saffron
- Rose
- Moss
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and saffron open dry and bright, with ylang-ylang adding a creamy, slightly banana-tinged floral lift. The opening reads spiced rather than sweet, and the heart is short — rose, deep and singular, rather than a bouquet.
The base does most of the work: sandalwood and cedar built up with patchouli and moss, amber and vanilla smoothing the edges, musk in the dry-down. The arc moves from a sharp spiced introduction into a long, warm woody-amber base. Wears long and stays close after the opening burns off. A composition that prioritizes its drydown over its first impression.
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.
