Acte D’Amour Furtif. A.N.
Black pepper crackles first, its dry heat slicing through bergamot’s bright citrus oil to create an aromatic spark that feels almost electric.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody70
- Fresh Spicy60
- Amber50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Cumin
- Iris
- Amberwood
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, its dry heat slicing through bergamot’s bright citrus oil to create an aromatic spark that feels almost electric. Cumin slides in next, adding a sweaty, slightly sour edge that pushes the iris into cool, carrot-root territory instead of face-powder sweetness. The iris-cumin tandem rides low over amberwood’s clean, resinous warmth and cedar’s pencil-sharp wood, while a suede veil blurs the seams and musk lifts the whole structure just off the skin. Over three hours the pepper mellows into a soft, woody skin scent where cedar dominates and the earlier spice lingers as a faint, salty skin echo. Projection stays polite, perfect for close-office days or cool spring evenings when you want intrigue without announcement.
Scent twins
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