Jacquard
Black pepper and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly metallic edge, quickly softened by the floral heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and bergamot open with a sharp, slightly metallic edge, quickly softened by the floral heart. Iris and violet dominate the mid-section, their cool, powdery quality muffling the warmer contributions of ylang-ylang and rose.
Vetiver and sandalwood arrive in the base, adding an earthy, woody dryness that keeps the florals from becoming diffuse. The musk sits close to the skin, giving the whole composition a restrained intimacy rather than broad projection.
The result is a powder-forward floral with credible structure: the pepper prevents it from reading purely feminine, the vetiver stops it from becoming too soft, and the violet runs through every stage as a clear thread.
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.
