Burning Desire
Black pepper crackles first, dry and electric, pulling grapefruit’s juicy sparkle into a high-contrast shimmer.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Sweet50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Raspberry
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, dry and electric, pulling grapefruit’s juicy sparkle into a high-contrast shimmer. Cardamom folds a cool green sweetness around the citrus edges while bergamot keeps the top bright and sheer. Raspberry arrives quickly, its tart red juiciness tinting the rose heart so the bloom reads almost crimson instead of velvet. The flower’s petals stay crisp, never powdery, letting the berry tang hover above clean white musk that swallows the entire base. Wear pushes out an arm’s length for three hours before collapsing to skin, leaving a faint pepper-raspberry shadow perfect for breezy spring cafés or early fall gallery events.
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.