Cruising Area
Smoke opens dense and tarry, carrying clove’s dry heat like scorched bark rather than kitchen spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Smoke
- Clove
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readSmoke opens dense and tarry, carrying clove’s dry heat like scorched bark rather than kitchen spice. Black pepper arrives early, amplifying the char while vetiver splits the difference between earthy root and singed grass, letting patchouli’s cocoa-dark facets settle underneath instead of taking over. The heart stays monochrome: grey wood embers, not resinous sweetness. Guaiac and cedar keep the base angular, sharpening the smoke into pencil-shiver shavings that cling to skin for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent feels like yesterday’s campfire jacket, wearable but still breathing soot. Cool nights, outdoor concerts, leather optional.
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.