Bitter Sweet
Black pepper snaps open, dry and crackling against bergamot's bright citrus oil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Balsamic50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Suede
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open, dry and crackling against bergamot's bright citrus oil. The heart folds in heliotropin's almond-powder softness, letting jasmine's indolic petals sit on velvety suede that muffles the spice. Ten minutes in, tonka bean's warm hay-vanilla rises through the leather, picking up opoponax's honeyed myrrh to create a skin-close amber glow. What begins sharp turns creamy and slightly sweet, the suede-iris accord keeping it suede-powdery rather than gourmand. Projection stays polite, a one-foot cloud that lasts office hours. Works best in cool spring or fall weather when the leather won't turn plastic.
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.
