Explicite
Explicite is Ex Nihilo's soft, approachable oriental — a Parisian niche entry that earns its place in the house's catalog by working the clean-sweet space more thoughtfully than its notes might initially suggest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Lily
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Praline
By the editors · 2 min readExplicite is Ex Nihilo's soft, approachable oriental — a Parisian niche entry that earns its place in the house's catalog by working the clean-sweet space more thoughtfully than its notes might initially suggest. Pink pepper and nutmeg open together with warmth and mild spice, the pink pepper's berry-like brightness preventing the nutmeg from reading heavy. The heart is where the composition shows its character: lily and lily of the valley's fresh, watery florals alongside peony's dewy sweetness and praline's caramel-nut warmth — a juxtaposition that reads as simultaneously feminine and dessert-adjacent without tipping into pure gourmand territory. Sandalwood, amber, and vanilla close with reliable, creamy depth. Polished and wearable.
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.
