for Women
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the bergamot into a bright, slightly bitter citrus peel rather than sweet cola.
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 Floral70
- Fresh Spicy60
- Amber50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Blackberry
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the bergamot into a bright, slightly bitter citrus peel rather than sweet cola. Gardenia and jasmine fuse into a creamy white-floral layer that softens the pepper’s edge while letting the blackberry’s tart purple juice run through, keeping the heart buoyant and lightly fruity. Vanilla warms the musk in the base, turning it from laundry-sheet to skin-hugging cashmere, so the scent ends as a clean, sweet, floral-powdery haze with only a memory of peppery heat. Projection stays within handshake range for five hours, perfect for daytime office or brunch when the weather is mild.
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.