Passage d'Enfer Extrême
Passage d'Enfer Extrême reworks the original 1999 Passage d'Enfer with sharper edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- Pine
- Jasmine
- Lily
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readPassage d'Enfer Extrême reworks the original 1999 Passage d'Enfer with sharper edges. The opening is pine-cool and pepper-lit, with incense already present from the start — there's no easing in.
The heart is dominated by a grey lily — not white-flower lush but ashen, almost metallic — and frankincense holds the center. Jasmine threads through it without softening anything. The base is dry and camphoraceous: cedar and sandalwood treated for austerity rather than comfort, with vanilla used as a barely-there breath rather than sweetness.
Reads as a winter incense for someone allergic to gourmand. Strict architecture, no decoration.
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.
