Encre Indigo
Pink pepper and bergamot open clean and bright, then immediately concede the stage to saffron, which carries the heart almost alone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Patchouli60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Saffron
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open clean and bright, then immediately concede the stage to saffron, which carries the heart almost alone. The saffron is the central material — leathery, slightly metallic, faintly sweet — and the pepper keeps it from softening too fast.
The base of ambergris and patchouli grounds the saffron without burying it. Patchouli supplies a damp earthiness; ambergris adds the salty-warm radiance that makes the composition feel atmospheric rather than insistent.
A close-wearing modern unisex with overcast-blue character, fitting for evening and cool-weather dress. Linear in structure, more about a single mood sustained than a story told in three acts.
Scent twins
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