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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Cinnamon
- Cardamom
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSig. Pepper announces itself immediately with layered pepper: black pepper's dry, crackling heat and pink pepper's more diffuse, slightly floral spice converge alongside lavender. The lavender here acts as a bridge rather than a featured note, tempering the pepper's sharpness and lending an aromatic, clean dimension.
The base is musk alone — spare, light, lending just enough staying power to keep the pepper signature alive close to skin without adding any sweetness or density to the dry-down.
This is a pepper-forward aromatic composition with notable restraint. The simplicity is intentional: no woods, no amber, no gourmand warmth to complicate the central idea. Projection stays modest, making it well-suited to intimate or office settings where assertiveness would be unwelcome.
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.
