Portinari Absoluto
Pink pepper crackles first, bright grapefruit slicing through while cardamom adds a cool green bite.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Woody70
- Amber50
- Soft Spicy40
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Freesia
- Atlas Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles first, bright grapefruit slicing through while cardamom adds a cool green bite. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy lactones soaking up the citrus oils; Atlas cedar’s dry pencil-shaving facet keeps the wood airy rather than dense. Freesia slips in quietly, giving a faint watercolour floral lift that prevents the heart from turning outright lumberyard. As skin heat builds, tonka bean’s marzipan sweetness merges with guaiac’s smoked-tea accent, both sheened by translucent amber and a patchouli that leans more loam than chocolate. Styrax supplies a soft leather nuance while musk anchors the base close to the body, letting the woods pulse softly for hours. Projection stays office-close; works best under autumn layers or a cool spring evening when you want polish without announcement.
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.