Volpe DNA
Ginger and black pepper crackle open with a flash of cardamom, releasing a hot, almost effervescent spice that feels like crushed pepper pods hitting warm metal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Fresh Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Lavender
- Saffron
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and black pepper crackle open with a flash of cardamom, releasing a hot, almost effervescent spice that feels like crushed pepper pods hitting warm metal. Lavender sweeps in quickly, cooling the burn with its clean, herbal edge while saffron threads a leathery, hay-like dryness through the heart; iris adds a cool, chalky violet tint that keeps the blend crisp rather than creamy. Vetiver and patchouli anchor the transition, sharpening the spices into an earthy, slightly bitter green that prepares the ground for the base. Leather emerges smooth and matte, not smoky but tanned, laced with amber’s resinous glow and a measured pour of vanilla that rounds edges without turning sweet. Projection hovers at arm’s length for the first four hours, then settles into a muted skin-leather wrap ideal for cool autumn offices or evening trains.
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.
