Cupid's Kiss
Pink pepper crackles first, a papery spark that lifts bergamot’s citrus into something rosier and drier.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Iris70
- Soft Spicy60
- Woody60
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Sandalwood
- Oud
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a papery spark that lifts bergamot’s citrus into something rosier and drier. Orris arrives quickly, its cool carrot-root facet sheathing the pepper’s heat and turning the accord powdery rather than sharp. Sandalwood and oud form an equal spine in the base, the former lending creamy sweetness, the latter a clean, medicinal rasp that keeps the wood from sagging. Labdanum spreads a dark, resinous amber between these woods, while suede stretches over the whole, muting projection and giving the scent the feel of a leather jewellery pouch rather than a loud statement. It stays close, unfolding in slow pulses for six to eight hours, the iris-pepper duet lingering longest on cuffs and scarves. Cool autumn days and smart-casual offices suit its muted richness best.
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.