Bullion
Bullion opens with an odd, almost jarring clash: bruised plum sweetness cut through with pink pepper's dry rasp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody75
- Leather65
- Warm Spicy55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Leather
- Leather
- Magnolia
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readBullion opens with an odd, almost jarring clash: bruised plum sweetness cut through with pink pepper's dry rasp. It's fruit rendered metallic, as if stored in a vault rather than a bowl. The leather arrives quickly, soft but present, less biker jacket than the interior of an expensive attaché case. Osmanthus and magnolia blur together into a pale, waxy floral haze that never quite blooms—more petal than flower, pressed and preserved.
What emerges is something both refined and slightly unsettling. The sandalwood anchors it with creamy wood, but the whole composition maintains a muted, almost airless quality. There's wealth here, old money kept in dim rooms. It wears close, introspective, better suited to someone who prefers understatement to declaration. Not warm, despite its notes—more like luxury at room temperature.
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.
