The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cedar
- Rose
- Oud
- Ambergris
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles at the opening, a dry, nose-tingling spark that immediately frames the scent as nocturnal and angular. Within minutes the spice folds into cedar planks whose clean wood grain scorches slightly under the pepper’s heat, letting a muted red rose add just enough petal softness to keep the heart from turning harsh. The base swells with a salty ambergris accord that feels almost damp, its marine funk anchoring a lean synthetic oud that smolders quietly rather than bellows; together they stretch the pepper-cedar axis into a dark, skin-close hum that lasts six hours. Projection stays intimate—arm-length radius—so the perfume functions like a personal leather jacket lining: detectable only when someone steps inside your space. Cool autumn nights and after-hours bars are its native terrain.
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.
