Illicit
Illicit opens with a sharp ginger bite that clears the air before giving way to a warmer agenda.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readIllicit opens with a sharp ginger bite that clears the air before giving way to a warmer agenda. The spice doesn't linger long—it's there to wake up the florals that follow, particularly a honeyed orange blossom that feels dense and slightly narcotic. The rose stays in the background, adding polish without stealing focus.
What makes this interesting is the base: not just sweet, but sticky-sweet, with caramel and honey thickening the sandalwood and vanilla into something closer to confection than abstraction. The amber adds a resinous edge that keeps it from sliding into pure dessert territory, but only just. It's unapologetically indulgent, built for someone who wants their florals served with a drizzle of something rich and a little reckless.
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.
