Colour Me Gold
Peppermint slashes through first, its icy blade set against grapefruit’s bitter pith to create a frosty citrus edge that snaps the head back.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Peppermint
- Grapefruit
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Rose
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readPeppermint slashes through first, its icy blade set against grapefruit’s bitter pith to create a frosty citrus edge that snaps the head back. Cinnamon quickly rolls in, dusting the cooling top with dry heat while lavender’s clean aromatics stretch the transition, keeping the accord airy rather than syrupy; beneath them a muted rose adds only a whisper of petals, enough to soften the spices without declaring a floral heart. As the opening chill fades, leather emerges as the dominant actor, matte and smoke-pressed, sucking up the residual sweetness and draping the amber in a dark hide that turns the scent comfortably masculine. Patchouli provides loamy depth in the far dry-down, its earthiness anchoring the amber so that the skin remains wrapped in a warm, slightly rugged glow for hours.
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.
