Gershwin
Black pepper, lemon, and grapefruit make a dry, citrus-led entry — the pepper keeps the opening from reading sweet, giving it a slight mineral edge instead.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
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- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Sandalwood
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, lemon, and grapefruit make a dry, citrus-led entry — the pepper keeps the opening from reading sweet, giving it a slight mineral edge instead.
As the citrus fades, clove and incense move forward with a resinous, slightly medicinal character. Frankincense deepens this, pushing the heart toward a cool, smoky density that doesn't feel heavy so much as focused and spare.
Sandalwood steadies the base, rounding the sharper resinous notes without softening them entirely. The overall effect is austere and linear, with smoke and dry wood holding the longest. A stripped-back composition that rewards patience over projection.
Scent twins
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