Lost Alice
Lost Alice opens with a peppery brightness that feels less like citrus and more like clarity—bergamot sharpened by black pepper and tempered by the herbal cool of clary sage.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris80
- Woody70
- Powdery70
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Orris
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readLost Alice opens with a peppery brightness that feels less like citrus and more like clarity—bergamot sharpened by black pepper and tempered by the herbal cool of clary sage. The effect is bracing but never harsh, more intellectual than cheerful. Within minutes, orris takes over, bringing that distinctive powdery-earthy quality that reads as both elegant and slightly melancholic.
The sandalwood in the base adds warmth without sweetness, grounding the orris in something creamy and quietly substantial. This is not the woody drydown of a conventional oriental; it stays close, almost skin-like, with the orris never fully retreating.
The overall impression is one of refined restraint—something between a tailored shirt and a library at dusk. It suits those who appreciate iris-forward fragrances but want something less overtly powdery, and anyone drawn to perfumes that feel contemplative rather than declarative.
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.
