Mood Swings
Black pepper and saffron open with a sharp spicy kick that feels warm and slightly medicinal on the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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 Spicy60
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Iris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and saffron open with a sharp spicy kick that feels warm and slightly medicinal on the skin. Amber and vanilla quickly soften the spices, introducing a resinous sweetness that is both cozy and enveloping. Iris adds a powdery floral quality that provides a dry contrast to the warmth, creating a balanced heart. Musk in the base ensures the dry-down remains clean and intimate, blending the spicy and powdery elements seamlessly. The composition evolves from sharp spice to soft powder, with projection that stays close to the skin throughout wear. Ideal for cool weather and formal occasions, it offers a refined and understated presence.
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.




