Evodia
Black pepper crackles first, dry and woody, pulling nutmeg’s warm sweetness into a brisk aromatic snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Orris
- Incense
- Tonka Bean
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, dry and woody, pulling nutmeg’s warm sweetness into a brisk aromatic snap. The heart swaps heat for cool powder as orris butter smooths the spices into a matte, slightly waxy iris sheet that quiets the top quickly. Incense rises underneath, not churchy smoke but a clean, paper-thin frankincense that keeps the iris aloft while vetiver threads earthy green through the talc. Tonka lands in the base with soft almond warmth, folding the remaining spice into a mild tobacco-hay facet that cuddles close to skin. Amber never shouts; it simply extends the tonka’s vanilla glow so the scent lingers as a clean, grey-powder skin halo for six hours. Projection stays office-polite; best worn spring through early fall for work or travel when you want quiet polish without floral sweetness.
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.
