Sacro e Profano
Pink pepper crackles first, a bright, dry spark that lifts the oily sweetness of orange peel.
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.
- Soft Spicy70
- Rose60
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Saffron
- Rose
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a bright, dry spark that lifts the oily sweetness of orange peel. Saffron slides in immediately, its leathery, hay-like bitterness folding over the rose, turning the bloom from velvety to dusty and sun-baked. The rose never becomes lush; instead it stays taut, framed by the spice so that the composition feels like crimson parchment rather than petals. As the heat of skin warms it, the saffron softens into a soft, suede-tinged skin scent while the pepper’s edges round, leaving a muted, papery floral that sits close and resists sweetness. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then lingers as a warm, dry trace on fabric. Cool autumn days and a dark turtleneck feel like the natural habitat for this restrained, spice-forward rose.
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.
