Dawn
Pink pepper opens dry and slightly fizzy, joined by the rose threaded through the general accord.
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.
- Smoky60
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Olibanum
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper opens dry and slightly fizzy, joined by the rose threaded through the general accord. The opening reads brisk and modern rather than juicy, with the pepper lending a peppery-rose snap that fades fast.
Olibanum carries the heart almost alone, lending a cool, lemony, slightly turpentine resinous quality. The frankincense character is the central idea — meditative, austere, more cathedral than warm. The rose echo from the top continues to drift through behind it.
Oakmoss, vetiver, and labdanum land the drydown in chypre territory, with vetiver adding rooty greenness, oakmoss a dry mossy bitterness, and labdanum a sticky-resinous warmth. The whole composition stays dry, transparent, and slightly austere. Best worn as a daytime cool-weather scent, refined rather than imposing.
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.
