Attendre & Espérer
Black pepper crackles across the opening, its dry heat lifting the neroli’s bitter-orange brightness so the citrus reads almost grapefruit-sharp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris80
- Woody70
- Fresh Spicy60
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Cardamom
- Iris
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles across the opening, its dry heat lifting the neroli’s bitter-orange brightness so the citrus reads almost grapefruit-sharp. Cardamom slips in within minutes, cooling the pepper and folding its green-mint edge around iris’s cool carrot-root powderiness, creating a dusty cedar-bound accord that smells like pencil shavings drifting through chilled spice. As skin warms, iris sheds its earthiness and lets the cedar planks dominate; the spice hum recedes to a low ambered warmth that clings close rather than projects. The whole structure stays lean, shifting from brisk peppered citrus to soft grey woods in about four hours, leaving a clean skin-print ideal for quiet office days or cool spring walks when you want subtle polish without announcement.
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.
