Let The Dance Begin
Black pepper crackles against neroli’s bittersweet orange blossom, the opening dusted with cardamom’s cool green spark.
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.
- Tuberose80
- Caramel70
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles against neroli’s bittersweet orange blossom, the opening dusted with cardamom’s cool green spark. Within minutes ylang-ylang’s banana-lifted custard folds into tuberose’s camphor-cream, while caramel melts underneath, turning the white floral heart into salted toffee. The cinnamon stick keeps the sweetness taut, preventing gourmand collapse. Dry-down swaps bloom for wood: tonka’s almond facet merges with sandalwood’s milk, cedar providing a clean pencil-shave frame and cashmeran adding a clean musky hum that keeps the confection airborne for hours. Projection stays at arm’s length, perfect for dinner dates or fall gallery openings when you want to smell edible but not teenage.
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.
