Eau de Protection
The name plays on contradiction — protection from what, exactly?
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Vanilla50
- Amber45
- Patchouli45
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readThe name plays on contradiction — protection from what, exactly? The formula itself is an intimate composition that wraps rather than shields. Ginger and black pepper fire up the opening with warmth and a slight bite, before jasmine and heliotrope take over: a pairing that reads sweet and softly powdery, the heliotrope's almond undertone smoothing jasmine's indolic edge into something luminous and skin-close.
In the base, benzoin and patchouli pull toward resin and dark earth, while tonka bean keeps the sweetness accessible. It sits close to the skin — sensual and slightly unusual, the kind of thing people notice only when they're already near enough to matter.
Scent twins
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