Poivre
Poivre opens on a single hot clove — dry, biting, almost medicinal — with no citrus or aromatic to soften the entry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tuberose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Clove
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPoivre opens on a single hot clove — dry, biting, almost medicinal — with no citrus or aromatic to soften the entry. For the first ten minutes it reads more like a culinary spice cabinet than a floral.
The heart is a four-flower chord — tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose — but the clove keeps stitching through it, so the florals never quite take the foreground. The effect is a kind of hot, peppery white floral, gauzier than it should be given the material list.
The drydown is where the perfume earns its reputation: oakmoss and vetiver pulling the spice into a chypre frame, sandalwood smoothing it, opoponax adding a dry resinous warmth at the floor. A spiced floral chypre with no concessions to comfort — a dense, unsweet composition closer to a leather-tobacco perfume than to anything currently fashionable.
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.
