Petra
Pink pepper crackles first, its bright rosiness sheared by bergamot’s citrus edge, then lily-of-the-valley steps in, cool and watery, softening the pepper’s heat while keeping the texture crisp.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather90
- Smoky80
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Incense
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, its bright rosiness sheared by bergamot’s citrus edge, then lily-of-the-valley steps in, cool and watery, softening the pepper’s heat while keeping the texture crisp. The heart is brief; incense surges upward almost immediately, dry and resinous, wrapping around supple leather that has been dusted with black pepper for extra grain. Myrrh and benzoin thicken the base into a lacquered, gently sweet varnish, while ambergris adds a salty, skin-like glow and patchouli supplies earthy ballast so the smoke never turns acrid. Hours in, the profile relaxes to a smoky leather skin-scent streaked with grey incense ash. Projection stays moderate, ideal for cool autumn evenings or gallery openings where subtle drama is welcome.
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.
