I-III Russian Tea
Mint opens cool and sharp, with black pepper adding a dry warmth that keeps the entrance from feeling too cold.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Leather70
- Smoky60
- Balsamic50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Black Pepper
- Raspberry
- Magnolia
- Leather
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readMint opens cool and sharp, with black pepper adding a dry warmth that keeps the entrance from feeling too cold. Raspberry threads in as a tart fruity edge — small, but enough to suggest the steeped-tea theme the name implies.
Magnolia in the heart provides a brief floral lift that softens the transition without dominating. The composition pivots quickly from the cool herbal-fruity opening to a darker, smokier register.
The drydown is where the character settles. Frankincense smoke curls around a tarry leather, with labdanum adding a resinous balsamic warmth underneath. The overall impression is of strong dark tea with smoky leather underfoot — austere, slightly austere, and built around the contrast between cool top and smoky base.
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.
