Besos
Besos opens on a thin slice of mandarin pricked by black pepper — a quick wake-up before the florals take over.
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.
- Floral70
- Iris60
- Vanilla60
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Mandarin
- Jasmine Sambac
- Iris
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBesos opens on a thin slice of mandarin pricked by black pepper — a quick wake-up before the florals take over. The citrus is brief, a setup rather than a subject.
Jasmine sambac and iris run the heart together: the sambac sweet and slightly indolic, the iris cool and a little earthy. They balance instead of competing. Underneath, benzoin and vanilla soften everything into something powdered and skin-warm, with a clean musk smoothing the seams. The composition stays close to the body and reads more intimate than declarative — flowers held against warm skin, the spice and citrus already gone, the powder rounding the rest. Lasts longer than it projects.
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.
