Scent Stories Vol.1/Ch.03 - The Botanist
Pink pepper crackles against chilled grapefruit, their citrus oils misted by a green apple snap that feels more stem than flesh.
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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.
- Fresh80
- Floral80
- Citrus70
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Peony
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles against chilled grapefruit, their citrus oils misted by a green apple snap that feels more stem than flesh. Lily-of-the-valley rushes in with aqueous peony, diluting the tart opening into a dew-splashed rose that never warms. The flower stays damp, held in place by vetiver root and a cool mineral ambergris that smells like wet river stones. After two hours the fruit has vanished, leaving only a pale, rain-soaked bouquet anchored to skin by quiet musk. Projection stays handshake-close; it behaves like a crisp white shirt for late-spring offices or weekend brunch when the forecast promises clouds, not sun.
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.
