# Nota di Viaggio (Rites de Passage)
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the grapefruit’s bittersweet pith and bergamot’s faintly metallic zest into a bright, edgy opening.
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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.
- Woody70
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Rosewood
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the grapefruit’s bittersweet pith and bergamot’s faintly metallic zest into a bright, edgy opening. Rosewood slips in early, its cool, pink timber smoothing the spices while jasmine and ylang-ylang add a faintly creamy, tropical radiance that keeps the heart airy rather than lush. As the top fizz subsides, sandalwood and vetiver lay down a clean, blond wood floor polished with frankincense’s quiet smoke; benzoin and patchouli slowly warm the background, turning the incense into a soft, resinous skin-glow that lasts through the day. Sillage stays within arm’s length, making it an effortless choice for spring office days or cool summer evenings when you want polish without announcement.
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.
