Gentle Touch
Black pepper pepper crackles against bergamot's citrus oil, creating a dry, slightly bitter opening that feels more woody than juicy.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Iris80
- Woody70
- Patchouli50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper pepper crackles against bergamot's citrus oil, creating a dry, slightly bitter opening that feels more woody than juicy. Jasmine quickly softens the edges, its white floral creaminess lifting the pepper while iris adds a cool, chalky powder that blurs the transition into the heart. The base settles into sandalwood and cedar planks dusted with patchouli's earthy crumble; musk binds everything with a clean skin-like warmth rather than animalic growl. Over three hours the pepper recedes, letting iris dominate as a cool violet-grey haze until wood re-emerges closer to the skin. Projection stays polite, extending maybe arm's length for the first two hours before nestling into a soft woody skin scent. Office-friendly year-round, it reads crisper in summer heat and cozier under sweaters when cool air sharpens the iris.
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.