African Rooibos
Black pepper and cardamom sit forward in the opening, with bergamot lifting them just enough to keep the entry from feeling too dense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cardamom sit forward in the opening, with bergamot lifting them just enough to keep the entry from feeling too dense. The pepper gives a dry crackle, cardamom rounding it into something more aromatic than sharp.
With no declared heart, the pyramid moves directly toward its base, which carries the bulk of the wear. Tonka bean lends a soft hay-and-almond warmth, sweetened gently and rounded out.
Cedar tightens the close with a clean dry-wood rasp, keeping the tonka from going too plush. Overall character is a warm-spicy woody with a quietly gourmand undertow — modest projection, comfortable and reasonably linear once the spices subside, more cool-weather than warm.
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.
