Sombres Dessins
Pink pepper snaps open with a bright, rosy sparkle that bergamot lifts into a cool, citric shimmer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Patchouli
- Osmanthus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper snaps open with a bright, rosy sparkle that bergamot lifts into a cool, citric shimmer. The heart folds in saffron’s leathered hay facet, letting patchouli’s cocoa-earth darken the osmanthus-rose duo so the fruitiness feels dried rather than juicy. As the base settles, sandalwood’s creamy grain softens the resin trio: olibanum’s citrus-incense smoke hovers above labdanum’s molten amber while a measured shot of rum adds caramel warmth without overt sweetness. Hours in, a muted, tobacco-tinged amber glow remains close to skin, projection dropping to whisper level. Cool autumn evenings, smart-casual offices, or low-lit bars suit its restrained shadow-play; longevity clocks seven-to-nine hours with moderate sillage for the first three.
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.