Poivre de Nuit
Clove dominates the opening with a dry, medicinal heat that crackles against skin.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Mossy70
- Yellow Floral60
- Balsamic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readClove dominates the opening with a dry, medicinal heat that crackles against skin. Ylang-ylang arrives quickly, pouring a custard-like floral sweetness that softens the spice while maintaining its peppery edge. Rose threads through the heart, adding a powdery floral dimension that keeps the composition from tilting fully into oriental territory. The base settles into a cool, mossy accord where vetiver’s grassy smoke meets opoponax’s resinous bitterness, all laid over sandalwood’s creamy wood. Oakmoss provides a chalky, forest-floor texture that extends the clove’s dryness into the far dry-down. Projection remains close to skin but persists eight hours, making it an autumn evening scent that favors wool coats and low light.
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.
