The Original
The opening pairs pink pepper, lemon and cardamom for a clean, slightly aromatic citrus that feels brisk rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody65
- Fresh55
- Floral50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Violet Leaf
- Labdanum
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening pairs pink pepper, lemon and cardamom for a clean, slightly aromatic citrus that feels brisk rather than sweet. The cardamom gives the brightness a soft creaminess and prevents it from going purely cologne. The transition is gentle, moving toward a green and resinous heart of violet leaf and labdanum.
From there the base leans woody and warm: sandalwood smooths the centre, vetiver gives a dry rooty edge, and amber underpins the whole with a quiet glow. Overall the character is a polished fresh-woody with a soft amber drydown, leaning more refined than sporty, suitable for daytime wear with a discreet presence and moderate longevity on skin.
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.
