La Dea Bendata
Black pepper and pink pepper crackle together in a dry, nose-tingling top that feels like crushed spice pods hitting warm skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Pomegranate
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and pink pepper crackle together in a dry, nose-tingling top that feels like crushed spice pods hitting warm skin. The heart blooms quickly with pomegranate’s tart red-juice glaze laid over lily of the valley’s cool green bells and orange blossom’s waxy honey, creating a bittersweet floral layer that keeps the peppers humming underneath. As skin heat rises, sandalwood steams forward, its creamy wood turning the pomegranate sourness into a soft blush while ambergris adds a salt-skin glow that lengthens the spices’ shadow. Clean white musk settles last, folding the earlier tart-wood accord into a second-skin veil that smells like pepper-dusted petals on sun-warmed timber. Projection stays within conversational range for six hours, making it an easy spring-through-fall office or daytime scent that never shouts.
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.
