Contemporary 2022
Blackberry and violet create a tart, jammy violet accord that feels more purple than green, while black pepper adds a quick sting that keeps the fruit from tipping into sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Blackberry
- Violet
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readBlackberry and violet create a tart, jammy violet accord that feels more purple than green, while black pepper adds a quick sting that keeps the fruit from tipping into sweetness. Cedar enters early, its dry pencil-wood grain sanding down the violet’s candied edge and letting nutmeg’s muted clove warmth settle in the middle. The moss base arrives quietly, a cool forest-floor cushion that stretches the spice into a soft, earthy hum rather than a loud woody finale. On skin the opening flash lasts twenty minutes before the violet folds into the cedar, leaving a muted, slightly salty woodland skin-scent with a ghost of berry. Projection stays polite, perfect for office days in spring or early fall when you want intrigue without announcement.
Scent twins
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