Volubilis
Pink pepper crackles first, a fizzy sparkle that grapefruit peel sharpens into cool, bitter zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Patchouli70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Mint
- Iris
- May Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a fizzy sparkle that grapefruit peel sharpens into cool, bitter zest. The heart cools further as mint pushes iris into an almost frozen powder, while May rose adds a faint honeyed blush that keeps the accord from turning cosmetic. Patchouli arrives early, earthy and dry, weaving through the iris to create a muted cocoa facet that amber later warms but never sweetens. In the dry-down, musk shears away the remaining floral edges, leaving a clean, mineral dryness that smells like brushed steel warmed by skin. Moderate projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for spring office days when you want quiet polish without announcing itself.
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.
