Shade of Chocolate
Bergamot and pink pepper open with a citrus-spiced brightness that fades quickly, making room for the heart's more substantial materials.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and pink pepper open with a citrus-spiced brightness that fades quickly, making room for the heart's more substantial materials. Coffee and jasmine sit in deliberate contrast — the bitterness of coffee against jasmine's soft, indolic sweetness. The combination reads rich rather than sharp, with the coffee providing definition that floral-only compositions tend to lack.
Tonka bean, sandalwood, and patchouli form a warm, resinous base. Patchouli here leans earthy rather than sweet, sandalwood adds a dry creaminess, and tonka pulls the whole together with a soft almond-like roundness. The drydown is persistent and close to the skin, with a quietly gourmand finish.
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.
