Geranium Bourbon
Black pepper opens with a dry, slightly sharp heat before violet softens the accord into something more powdery and close.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Violet80
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Violet
- Rose
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens with a dry, slightly sharp heat before violet softens the accord into something more powdery and close. Rose enters alongside, staying somewhat muted — more of a support to the violet than a standalone focus.
Patchouli in the base asserts itself clearly, adding an earthy, slightly dark depth that grounds the floral heart. Amber and vanilla contribute warmth and a gentle sweetness without moving the fragrance into clearly sweet territory — the pepper and patchouli keep pulling it back toward dryness.
The result is a floral-earthy construction with enough spice to feel slightly androgynous. The violet-patchouli axis gives it most of its character, with rose adding softness and amber rounding the dry-down.
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.
