Hidden Desire
The opening is juicy and tilted feminine — pear and peach over pink pepper, with the bergamot giving it a slightly sparkling edge rather than a sour one.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fruity70
- Floral55
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Pink Pepper
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is juicy and tilted feminine — pear and peach over pink pepper, with the bergamot giving it a slightly sparkling edge rather than a sour one.
A jasmine and violet heart pulls things prettier as the fruit recedes, with peach lingering into the middle to keep things plush. Violet adds a powdered, slightly retro softness that keeps the floral from feeling generic.
Virginia cedar and musk close things out cleanly, with the wood lending a dry frame and the musk pushing the drydown skin-close and laundered. There's no real depth past that point, and projection drops fairly quickly. Reads as a young, daytime spring or summer scent — easy, warm-skinned, and uncomplicated.
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.




