Paisley
Peppermint snaps open with a cooling green edge that slices through sweet orange and tart lemon, creating an icy citrus-mint flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Aromatic70
- Citrus60
- Fresh Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Peppermint
- Orange
- Lemon
- Star Anise
- Cardamom
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPeppermint snaps open with a cooling green edge that slices through sweet orange and tart lemon, creating an icy citrus-mint flash. Star anise steps in early, its liquorice warmth wrapping the mint while cardamom crackles, turning the heart into a spiced candy rather than a confection. Vetiver and patchouli root the sweetness in cool earth; the vetiver adds grassy smoke, the patchouli brings dry cocoa dust, together halting any sugary drift. As the mint recedes the spices soften, leaving a clean, faintly medicinal wood that smells like crushed leaves on damp soil. Projection stays polite, a forearm-length aura for office or weekend errands, best when temperature still carry a chill.
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.
