Nevermore
Anne-Sophie Behaghel composed Nevermore as an olfactory response to Poe's The Raven — and the parallels are precise.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rose55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Damask Rose
- Amber
- Saffron
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readAnne-Sophie Behaghel composed Nevermore as an olfactory response to Poe's The Raven — and the parallels are precise. Black pepper and nutmeg open with a cold, spiced sharpness that suggests something approaching in darkness before the damask rose arrives as the composition's sole floral: not warm, but cold and precise, a flower in a cemetery rather than a garden. Saffron in the base functions as Behaghel intended — like ink, metallic and warm, something that marks rather than merely scents. Atlas cedar and amber provide the wooden room, the dark chamber. A six-note composition with total clarity of intent; Nevermore earns its brevity. Gothic perfumery at its most disciplined.
Scent twins
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