Appear
Pear opens crisp and watery, cut by a quick snap of black pepper that keeps the fruit from turning syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- White Floral60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Pepper
- Gardenia
- Tonka Bean
- Pear
- Orris
- Black Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readPear opens crisp and watery, cut by a quick snap of black pepper that keeps the fruit from turning syrupy. Gardenia and jasmine bloom in the heart, their white-petal cream folding into orris butter and a second, softer pear wave so the accord stays luminous rather than lactonic. Moss and vetiver thread green bitterness through the base, while caramel and heliotrope warm the underside, letting raspberry glints flicker like candlelight on skin. The dry-down settles into a clean sandalwood-amber-musk panel that smells lightly toasted, as if the earlier caramel had been sanded smooth. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours, perfect for bright spring days or outdoor brunches when you want freshness with a subtle gourmand pulse.
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.
