Liquide (2020)
Black pepper snaps open, its dry heat crackling against bergamot’s brief citrus spark before cardamom’s cool green bite slides in.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Ozonic50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Labdanum
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open, its dry heat crackling against bergamot’s brief citrus spark before cardamom’s cool green bite slides in. The spices fold into labdanum’s sticky amber, creating a leathery resin that grips the skin within minutes. Iris arrives next, powdery and cool, sanding the rough edges and turning the accord into something like suede brushed with talc. Saffron threads a medicinal, hay-like sweetness through the heart, while cedar adds splintery wood that keeps the iris from turning plush. The base is dominated by suede: soft, matte, faintly oily, it stretches the leathery theme for hours, losing the spices but keeping a quiet skin-bound musk. Projection stays close, a scented leather glove for cool fall days or a dark blazer collar.
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.