Parfum de Peau
Montana's 1986 creation opens with a flash of ginger heat tempered by dark fruit—blackberry and cassis lending an almost bruised sweetness beneath the orange blossom's waxy brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- White Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Currant
- Orange Blossom
- Blackberry
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readMontana's 1986 creation opens with a flash of ginger heat tempered by dark fruit—blackberry and cassis lending an almost bruised sweetness beneath the orange blossom's waxy brightness. The combination feels saturated, heavy before it's warm.
As it settles, the floral heart reveals itself through a haze of patchouli, with jasmine and rose softened by narcissus's slightly green, indolic presence. This isn't a clean bouquet but something denser, earthier. The leather emerges gradually, more suede than saddle, mingling with incense smoke that never quite clears.
The base hovers close to skin—amber and musk providing warmth without projecting far. Despite the name's promise of intimacy, this remains a perfume of the eighties: assertive construction, deliberate contrasts, built for a time when fragrance announced rather than whispered. It wears best on someone comfortable with that kind of presence.
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.
