Floating Forest
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that bergamot softens into a cool, greenish brightness rather than classic citrus sparkle.
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.
- Green70
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Rose
- Papyrus
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that bergamot softens into a cool, greenish brightness rather than classic citrus sparkle. The heart swaps sharpness for transparent florals: freesia’s watery petal facet lifts rose, keeping it airy instead of honeyed, so the accord stays like wet leaves rather than a flower bouquet. Papyrus slides in early, its green-wood pulp flattening the remaining citrus and adding a paper-like dryness that quiets the florals within twenty minutes. Musk blankets the late dry-down, a clean, laundry-style cotton that melds with papyrus to produce a soft, salt-tinged skin scent that clings close and resists warmth. Projection stays at arm’s length for about four hours, then collapses to a skin whisper, perfect for office days, spring rain, or post-gym freshness when you want to smell shower-clean rather than perfumed.
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.




