Birthday Cake.
Black pepper and bergamot create a bright citrus-spicy opening that quickly softens into the heart accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Lactonic50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and bergamot create a bright citrus-spicy opening that quickly softens into the heart accord. Ginger adds warmth while jasmine provides a floral sweetness that complements violet's powdery character. Tonka bean and amber create a sweet resinous base that blends with musk's skin-like warmth. The dry-down shifts from spicy-citrus to a soft sweet-powdery trail that stays close to the skin. Projection is moderate initially but becomes intimate within two hours, lasting through the day with linear evolution. Best worn in cool to warm weather for casual or date occasions where its playful sweetness feels appropriate.
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.




