IF by R.K.
Ginger and black pepper open hot and dry, with bergamot adding just enough citrus to keep the spice from feeling abrasive.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Cashmeran
- Fig
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and black pepper open hot and dry, with bergamot adding just enough citrus to keep the spice from feeling abrasive. The first impression is crisp-spicy and slightly culinary.
The heart turns more textural than fragrant. Cashmeran lends that suede-and-cedar fuzziness, fig brings a green milky note alongside cinnamon, and the cinnamon stays warm rather than sweet. The combination reads almost like a spiced-wood smoothie — round, lightly creamy, never gourmand.
The sandalwood-heavy base is the payoff, with mysore sandalwood lending that buttery-resinous depth and tonka adding a soft sweetness underneath. Guaiac and patchouli darken the close. A polished spicy-woody, dressy without being formal, suited to cool evenings.
Scent twins
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