Suede Orris
Black pepper snaps open, dry and crackling, before frankincense and olibanum fuse into a cool, resinous haze that settles over the skin.
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.
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open, dry and crackling, before frankincense and olibanum fuse into a cool, resinous haze that settles over the skin. Orris arrives early, its chilled carrot-root powder sheathing jasmine’s green petals and a muted rose, creating a matte floral heart that feels like brushed suede rather than bloom. Labdanum and benzoin thicken the base, their molten amber weight pulling vanilla into a soft, tobacco-hued leather while cedar keeps the texture dry and patchouli adds a quiet earthy growl. Over hours the incense recedes, leaving a suede-skin veil warmed by resinous vanilla and flecked with peppery wood. Projection stays close, a personal aura perfect for office or cool-weather travel; longevity stretches past eight hours on fabric.
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.
