Antigua Bay
Black pepper snaps open, a dry crackle that bergamot quickly softens with a thin citrus haze.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open, a dry crackle that bergamot quickly softens with a thin citrus haze. The heart is almost pure patchouli—earthy, slightly sweet, carrying enough green heft to bridge the bright top and the creamy base. Vanilla and sandalwood arrive together, thickening the texture while white musk keeps the edges clean; ambergris adds a quiet salt-skin glow that lingers past midnight. Cedar stays background, sharpening the wood profile so the vanilla never cloys. Projection stays within arm’s reach for six hours before collapsing into a musky-wood second-skin. Cool spring nights and breezy fall offices fit its polite spice; heat amplifies the pepper too sharply.
Scent twins
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