Nektar
Pink pepper and grapefruit open with a citrus-spice brightness, quickly complicated by clary sage's herbal edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather85
- Patchouli65
- Smoky60
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Clary Sage
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Leather
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and grapefruit open with a citrus-spice brightness, quickly complicated by clary sage's herbal edge. The transition is abrupt: incense and leather arrive with weight, and cinnamon layers over everything, pushing the heart into warm-spice territory. Honey adds a thick sweetness that reads more resinous than foodie against the olibanum.
The base settles into patchouli and Madagascar vanilla — earthy, rich, and slightly dark. Cedar keeps structure in place. The overall profile is a leather-incense oriental with cinnamon as the connective tissue. Dense and long-wearing, it projects confidently. Better suited to cold weather than warm, given how heavy the heart and base run.
Scent twins
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