North
Black pepper and bergamot arrive first — sharp, clean, and brief.
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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Atlas Cedar
- Virginia Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and bergamot arrive first — sharp, clean, and brief. Jasmine follows at the heart, lending a floral lift that stays measured rather than heady. Nutmeg threads through this stage, adding a dry, almost biscuity warmth that keeps the floral grounded rather than sweet.
Atlas cedar and Virginia cedar carry the drydown, giving the base a dry, pencil-shaving quality. The overall character is a spare woody spice — uncluttered and relatively linear after the top notes burn off. It reads as quiet and understated, more suited to close wear than projection. The nutmeg-cedar axis holds the most interest.
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.
