Stance
Black pepper crackles first, hot and dry, while cardamom and nutmeg add a sweet-green spice that keeps the opening from turning harsh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, hot and dry, while cardamom and nutmeg add a sweet-green spice that keeps the opening from turning harsh. Apple slips underneath, giving a crisp, slightly tart lift that bridges the spices into the heart where vetiver’s smoky earthiness meets cedar’s clean wood shavings. Patchouli adds dark leaf richness, amplifying the spices’ resinous edge. In the dry-down, vanilla softens the amber, papyrus keeps a dry paper rustle, and moss plus musk lend a cool forest-floor quiet that lingers close to the skin. Projection stays polite, a one-arm-length aura perfect for office or cool spring evenings.
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.
