Papyrus Moleculaire
Elemi and black pepper open with a resinous-spiced brightness — elemi's fresh incense quality alongside pepper's dry heat, coriander adding an herbal sharpness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Smoky70
- Warm Spicy55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Elemi
- Coriander
- Carrot Seed
- Tobacco
- Papyrus
- Amyris
By the editors · 2 min readElemi and black pepper open with a resinous-spiced brightness — elemi's fresh incense quality alongside pepper's dry heat, coriander adding an herbal sharpness. The opening clears the way for the composition's subject: papyrus, worked here by Leslie Girard to express its lighter, more weightless facets rather than the dark smoky register the note often inhabits. Amyris contributes soft woody-milky character; carrot seed adds an unexpected powdery-earthy quality; tobacco provides darker textural depth beneath.
Olibanum and tonka bean in the base bring warm resinous structure; amber closes smoothly and cleanly. Papyrus Moleculaire earns its name — a focused portrait of one unusual material, engineered to reveal what the note becomes when treated with precision rather than convention.
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.
