Exhaust Fuel
The opening is a brief flash of pink pepper and bergamot, peppery-bright and a little bitter, dispatched within minutes rather than lingering.
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.
- Mossy80
- Earthy60
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Moss
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a brief flash of pink pepper and bergamot, peppery-bright and a little bitter, dispatched within minutes rather than lingering. The composition skips a heart almost entirely.
What takes over is dense and dark, oakmoss giving a shadowy, slightly damp earthiness while vetiver adds a cool grassy bite. Together they read as a chypre skeleton without the floral filling, drier than expected and faintly mineral.
Musk keeps everything close and skin-warm without softening the green-earth core. Overall the character is a stripped-down moss-and-vetiver study, minimalist and a little austere. It wears low, lasts steadily, and reads more atmosphere than statement on the body.
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.
