51° 19’ 9”N / 1° 21’ 30”E
Black pepper and star anise crackle open with a dry, nose-tingling snap that feels like coastal wind across pebbles.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Star Anise
- Mint
- Lavender
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and star anise crackle open with a dry, nose-tingling snap that feels like coastal wind across pebbles. The heart swerves into an iced herbal wave where mint dominates, pushing lavender and citrus to the background, creating a cooling aromatic accord that erases any initial sweetness. Guaiac wood and vetiver anchor the dry-down with clean, slightly smoky driftwood and sun-bleached grass, while patchouli adds only a whisper of earthy grip rather than darkness. On skin it stays airy and diffusive, projecting arm-length for the first three hours before settling into a salt-sprayed skin scent that smells like sea-tangled herbs left to dry in the sun. The composition favors cool spring mornings and windy cliff walks; office-safe sillage and moderate longevity make it an easy daily refresher that never cloys.
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.




