New York (Gabriela Hearst)
Black pepper and nutmeg crackle open with a dry, almost boozy heat that feels more like pepper-dust than juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Tobacco
- Rose
- Maple
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and nutmeg crackle open with a dry, almost boozy heat that feels more like pepper-dust than juice. Tobacco leaf folds in almost immediately, carrying a faintly honeyed rose that keeps the accord from turning cigar-heavy; the rose adds a damp-petal lift, letting the tobacco read as cured rather than smoky. Maple sap then seeps through the heart, lending a slow-cooked sweetness that darkens the rose and pulls the spice toward a soft, brown-sugar texture. Vanilla and patchouli lock together in the base, forming a creamy, slightly earthy fondant that swallows the earlier snap; musk sheens the skin with a powdered cocoa haze rather than loud projection. The scent stays close, radiating maybe a forearm’s length for six hours, ideal for cool autumn offices or intimate restaurant booths where subtlety reads as polish rather than timidity.
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.
