Dover Street Market
Created in 2009 to mark Dover Street Market's London anniversary and credited to Rei Kawakubo herself, this is a chilly woody oriental that opens damp and resinous: pine sap, juniper, and a bright sting of black pepper over bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Smoky70
- Woody55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pepper
- Mandarin Orange
- Bergamot
- Incense
- Coriander
- Juniper Berries
By the editors · 2 min readCreated in 2009 to mark Dover Street Market's London anniversary and credited to Rei Kawakubo herself, this is a chilly woody oriental that opens damp and resinous: pine sap, juniper, and a bright sting of black pepper over bergamot. Within minutes the architecture rises — incense and coriander pull the citrus inward, deepening into a cold-church austerity rather than warmth.
The drydown leans on Virginia cedar, French labdanum, and a leathery patchouli that grounds the smoke. There's nothing soft about the trail; it reads more like a forest in winter than a perfume in the conventional sense, which is precisely the point. Best on cold, dry days when its spareness becomes the room's mood.
Scent twins
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