Ballerina No 3
Black pepper and pink pepper open sharply, quickly softened by a dual-layered rose that runs through both the top and heart.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Rose
- Violet Leaf
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and pink pepper open sharply, quickly softened by a dual-layered rose that runs through both the top and heart. The spice never fully retreats but becomes more decorative as violet leaf adds a cool, slightly green edge to the floral core.
In the base, sandalwood and cedar build a dry, pale wood structure, while cashmeran adds a faint cashmere-like warmth. Patchouli stays restrained rather than earthy. Vanilla and ambergris bring a quiet smoothness without tipping toward sweetness.
The overall effect is a spiced rose on a clean, dry wood foundation — well-defined but not aggressive. It reads as polished and wearable across cooler seasons.
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.
