Spiced Bergamot & Orris
Black pepper and cardamom crackle over bergamot, the spices drying the citrus into a taut, peppery sparkle that feels like cool air on 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cardamom crackle over bergamot, the spices drying the citrus into a taut, peppery sparkle that feels like cool air on skin. Sage adds a gray-green fuzz that softens the edges before orris slides in, its chalky, violet-tinted powder blanketing the spices and turning the scent matte and suede-like. Lavender keeps the heart lifted, preventing the iris from becoming too cosmetic, while cedar in the base stitches everything to clean wood shavings. Tonka bean warms the dry-down with a faint almond-coumarin sweetness, but the iris–pepper accord lingers longest, leaving a cool, papery trail that stays close yet steady. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, perfect for spring office days when you want quiet polish without announcing yourself.
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.
