Bois Mystique
A spicy aromatic opening — ginger, cardamom, pink pepper, and black pepper firing together over neroli and bergamot.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Ginger
- Mint
- Neroli
- Neroli
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readA spicy aromatic opening — ginger, cardamom, pink pepper, and black pepper firing together over neroli and bergamot. The pepper trio gives a dry crackling lift, citrus and neroli keeping it from feeling too dense.
The heart deepens into incense and cinnamon, with iris adding a powdered cool grey thread that contrasts the warm spice. Black pepper persists, lending a darker shadow. It reads polished and quietly austere.
The base resolves into guaiac wood, myrrh, amber, cedar, and musk — a resinous-woody floor with soft amber sweetness. Smoky guaiac and bitter myrrh keep the close from rounding entirely. Overall character is a refined spiced-incense oriental, projecting steadily in cooler weather.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
