Pure Instinct
Black pepper snaps first, dry and electric, then grapefruit’s tart juice cuts the heat while cardamom seeds add a sweet-green edge.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Sage
- Lavender
- Rosemary
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps first, dry and electric, then grapefruit’s tart juice cuts the heat while cardamom seeds add a sweet-green edge. The heart swaps sparkle for calm: crushed clary sage and rosemary release a camphoraceous lift that keeps lavender’s clean barbershop core from turning creamy. Cedar arrives early, threading splintery wood through the herbs and quietly setting up the dry-down. Once the spices settle, oakmoss spreads a cool, loamy carpet and a light tobacco leaf note supplies soft, hay-like sweetness without any smoky weight; double cedar keeps the profile crisp rather than plush. Wear it close, expect four-to-six hours, and treat it as an easy office-ready refresher for mild spring or early-fall days.
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.
