Presidente
Black pepper crackles on first spray, a dry spark that pulls the bergamot’s tart oil into sharp focus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Lavender
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles on first spray, a dry spark that pulls the bergamot’s tart oil into sharp focus. Lemon adds pithy lift, then the heart swaps citrus for an aromatic tandem: cool mint shears the edges off warm lavender while nutmeg dusts the transition with soft brown spice. Vetiver and cedar arrive early, their split-wood dryness carrying a quiet ribbon of benzoin sweetness that keeps the base from turning austere; musk stays low, a skin-close hum that stitches the woods together. The scent remains brisk through the dry-down, projecting an arm’s-length cool woodiness that reads shower-fresh rather than earthy. Office-safe in spring and summer, it fades to a clean linen ghost after five hours.
Scent twins
In this family
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.