Preston
Apple and pink pepper create a crisp fruity-spicy opening with a slightly tart effervescence.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Iris60
- Powdery60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Violet Leaf
- Pink Pepper
- Saffron
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readApple and pink pepper create a crisp fruity-spicy opening with a slightly tart effervescence. Violet leaf contributes a waxy green accent that tempers the fruitiness with a cool vegetal edge. Saffron introduces a soft-spicy warmth that blends seamlessly into the heart, adding a subtle leathery nuance. Iris provides a powdery floral texture that smooths over the green and spicy elements with a cosmetic softness. Tonka bean adds a sweet vanillic warmth that complements the powdery iris in the base. Oakmoss and cedar offer a dry woody-mossy foundation that grounds the composition without heaviness. Sillage remains intimate and close to the skin, projecting softly for about arm's length. Best suited for spring and fall evenings with a linear dry-down that emphasizes powder and wood.
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.
