Closed Gate
Opens with a heavy dose of black pepper alongside labdanum and grapefruit.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Balsamic65
- Warm Spicy60
- Woody60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Labdanum
- Grapefruit
- Sandalwood
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a heavy dose of black pepper alongside labdanum and grapefruit. The labdanum reads early and unusual for a top note, lending a resinous, slightly sweaty richness right under the citrus-and-spice brightness.
The heart adds sandalwood, more black pepper and vetiver. The pepper carries through almost the entire arc, while the vetiver brings a smoky, earthy bitterness and the sandalwood keeps everything creamy enough to stay wearable.
The base of labdanum, vanilla and musk pulls the composition into a warm balsamic-amber drydown with a faint leathery edge. Vanilla is more soft sweetening than gourmand here. It projects strongly for the first hours and holds a peppery, resinous warmth close to the skin late into the day.
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.
