Promise
Pink pepper crackles on the opening — peppery rather than fruity here, immediately giving way to a cool mineral iris that defines the entire composition.
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
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Sandalwood
- Pear
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles on the opening — peppery rather than fruity here, immediately giving way to a cool mineral iris that defines the entire composition.
The heart is essentially a single carefully placed flower: iris, presented in its rooty-grey aspect rather than the candied violet side, with a subtle metallic stillness that feels almost sculptural. There is little development between the opening and the centre; the perfume settles quickly into one mood and stays there.
Sandalwood and amber form the base, the sandalwood creamy, the amber warm but light, lending the iris a soft golden floor without disturbing its cool composure. Overall the perfume reads minimalist and quietly polished, more refined whisper than statement.
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.
