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.
- Tobacco70
- Vanilla60
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Tobacco
- Violet
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readA spicy gourmand that takes its time. Black pepper, cardamom, nutmeg and bergamot crackle at the top — more cooking-spice rack than perfume top — and the bergamot keeps it from feeling dense.
The heart is where the personality lands: tobacco and coffee laid against violet, a combination that reads warm and slightly bitter, with the violet softening edges that would otherwise turn ashtray. Coffee here is roasted, not sweet.
The drydown is vanilla and patchouli, the modern oriental base, but kept restrained by the spice and the tobacco still bleeding through. Suits cold-weather evenings and dressed occasions. Projects well for the first three hours, then settles to a warm wake.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
