Épine Mortelle
Épine Mortelle stacks a remarkable amount of material into the opening — pink and black pepper, cumin's animal undertone, lemon and bergamot, nutmeg, anise — and lets the heart absorb it into a damp, slightly green floral of magnolia, mimosa, violet, and damask rose, woven with frankincense and black currant's photographic green.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readÉpine Mortelle stacks a remarkable amount of material into the opening — pink and black pepper, cumin's animal undertone, lemon and bergamot, nutmeg, anise — and lets the heart absorb it into a damp, slightly green floral of magnolia, mimosa, violet, and damask rose, woven with frankincense and black currant's photographic green.
The drydown narrows back to vetiver, vanilla, patchouli, and musk — earthier and rounder than the storm above it. The contrast between that crowded top and the quieter base is the entire idea.
A cold-weather statement composition, ornate and dense, demanding patience.
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.
