Lime, Gardenia & Benzoin
Black pepper crackles across a bright wedge of lime and grapefruit, the citrus oils sharpened rather than sweetened by the spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tuberose90
- Yellow Floral60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles across a bright wedge of lime and grapefruit, the citrus oils sharpened rather than sweetened by the spice. Gardenia arrives early, its creamy petals folding around tuberose and ylang-ylang to create a unified white-floral cream that muffles the citric sparkle and keeps the bouquet from turning shrill. Benzoin dominates the base, spreading a warm, resinous glaze that traps the remaining flowers in a soft, slightly vanilla-toned amber glow while clean musk lifts any residual heaviness. Over four hours the scent relaxes from peppery-citrus flash to a skin-hugging floral custard, always polite and sun-lit. Projection stays within arm’s length; it reads like crisp linen on humid mornings and feels built for casual daytime wear through spring and summer.
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.
