Rima XI
A sharp burst of mint and black pepper announces Rima XI with startling clarity, the cardamom and saffron folding in like spice-dusted silk.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Black Pepper70
- Cardamom65
- Vanilla60
- Amber55
- Musk45
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp burst of mint and black pepper announces Rima XI with startling clarity, the cardamom and saffron folding in like spice-dusted silk. The opening feels medicinal in the best sense—clean, slightly mentholated, focused—before the warmth begins to creep in from below.
As it settles, the vanilla emerges not as sweetness but as structure, a creamy backdrop that holds the spices in suspension. Benzoin and amber thicken the air around the skin, turning the composition dense and resinous without losing that initial freshness entirely. The contrast between cool mint memory and warm vanilla body creates a push-pull tension that keeps shifting.
This is a fragrance for someone who finds gourmands cloying but still craves comfort. It wears close, almost contemplative, like the scent of a private ritual rather than a statement made across a room.
