The Scent Of Peace
The Scent of Peace opens with a tart, slightly metallic burst of black currant sharpened by grapefruit's bright acidity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Lily of the Valley
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe Scent of Peace opens with a tart, slightly metallic burst of black currant sharpened by grapefruit's bright acidity. The combination has an almost aqueous clarity, more mineral than fruity, that feels unusually clean for a Bond No. 9 release. Within minutes, lily of the valley emerges with its green, slightly soapy character, softening the citrus but maintaining that scrubbed coolness.
As it settles, Virginia cedar provides a pale, pencil-shaving woodiness rather than anything dense or resinous. The musk underneath is transparent, almost to the point of translucence, giving the whole composition an airy, uncomplicated quality.
This is Bond No. 9 at its most restrained—no heavy orientalism, no sticky sweetness. It suits someone looking for something polite and versatile, a fragrance that sits close to the skin and doesn't announce itself. Undemanding, almost to a fault.
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.
