Sira des Indes
Sira-des-Indes opens with the strangeness of pink pepper meeting overripe pear—a fizzy, slightly bruised sweetness cut by spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Woody75
- Amber65
- Vanilla60
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Plum
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readSira-des-Indes opens with the strangeness of pink pepper meeting overripe pear—a fizzy, slightly bruised sweetness cut by spice. Cardamom adds a resinous warmth that pushes the composition immediately eastward, while bergamot keeps the opening from collapsing into syrup. The effect is both fruity and aromatic, like walking past a spice merchant's stall hung with garlands of wilting flowers.
The heart thickens with ylang-ylang and plum, an indolic richness that some will find narcotic and others simply heavy. Orange blossom provides a waxy, honeyed backdrop. As it dries down, sandalwood and amber emerge as the true anchors—creamy, slightly powdered, humming beneath a veil of vanilla and musk.
This is Jean Patou's attempt at an oriental with contemporary softness, aimed at those who want warmth without density. It wears close, never loud, with a roundness that suggests candles and cashmere rather than temple incense.
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.
