MCM Onyx
Pink pepper crackles first, a bright grapefruit snap cutting through its rosy heat to create a citrus-sparkle top that feels effervescent rather than sweet.
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.
- Green70
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Basil
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, a bright grapefruit snap cutting through its rosy heat to create a citrus-sparkle top that feels effervescent rather than sweet. The heart swaps heat for cool green as violet leaf’s watery metallic facet meets basil’s anise-tinged verdancy, softening the opening and steering the scent toward a freshly crushed herbal tea character. Tonka bean lands quietly in the base, folding a faint almond-coumarin warmth under the lingering green veil so the fragrance never turns sugary; instead it stays airy, slightly powdery, and skin-close for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it an easy daytime refresher for warm spring offices or humid summer travel days when you want cleanliness without aquatic clichés.
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.