Histoires de Parfums
The opening throws a citrus-herbal-spicy avalanche — black pepper and ylang-ylang against lime, orange, lemon, eucalyptus, grapefruit, galbanum, ivy, lychee, and bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy65
- Amber60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lime
- Wormwood
- Orange
- Lemon
- Eucalyptus
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening throws a citrus-herbal-spicy avalanche — black pepper and ylang-ylang against lime, orange, lemon, eucalyptus, grapefruit, galbanum, ivy, lychee, and bergamot. It reads as a dense, slightly chaotic perfumer's library rather than a focused chord.
The heart is even busier: ginger, cinnamon, tuberose, lavender, jasmine, cumin, frankincense, star anise, heliotrope, lily of the valley, orange blossom, clove, patchouli, cardamom, iris, violet, and nutmeg. Spicy, smoky, white-floral, and powdery facets all jostle for room, producing a maximalist warm-spicy-floral middle.
The base layers white musk, sandalwood, oakmoss, leather, birch, vetiver, frankincense, almond, labdanum, benzoin, amber, vanilla, cedar, patchouli, and caramel. Long-lasting, dense, slightly smoky-amber drydown. Cool-weather, evening-only — large and ornate.
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.
