Sovereign
Black pepper crackles first, dry and spicy, then pink pepper adds a brighter, rosier heat that quickly melts into myrrh’s cool, incense dust.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky60
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Myrrh
- Iris
- Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, dry and spicy, then pink pepper adds a brighter, rosier heat that quickly melts into myrrh’s cool, incense dust. Iris slides beneath the resinous haze, its carrot-root starch softening the peppers while a quiet rose lends a washed-petal glow rather than full bloom. The base arrives early: oud smoulders with a clean, medicinal edge, cedar supplies pencil-sharp verticality, and patchouli brings dark-chocolate earth that anchors the incense trail. Over hours the peppers recede, letting the bittersweet oud-patchouli duet dominate, supported by a faint skin-scent of powdered wood. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles to a a resin-tinged cedar linger that leans masculine and works best under cool wool or evening leather.
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.
