Le Cedre
Incense and twin peppers crackle open Le Cedre, the black pepper giving a dry, splintered heat that the pink berry softens with rosy pimento lift.
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.
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Mimosa
- Cedar
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and twin peppers crackle open Le Cedre, the black pepper giving a dry, splintered heat that the pink berry softens with rosy pimento lift. Mimosa slides in quickly, its airy yellow pollen dusting the spices and turning the smoke into a soft, suede-like haze rather than church pew resin. Two cedar cuts—clean pencil shavings and a greener, sappy plank—arrive with the mimosa, tightening the composition into thin, vertical wood grain while musk blankets the edges in neutral skin warmth. As the peppers recede the cedar dominates, yet the incense continues to smolder underneath, preventing the wood from ever feeling bare or freshly sanded. Projection stays polite, a low campfire radius that lasts the workday; cool autumn days and smart-casual offices fit its restrained, quietly confident timber frame.
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.
