Byzance
Byzance opens with a quiet tartness — pink pepper sharpening a black currant note, the way fruit reads when it is still slightly underripe.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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 Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Lactonic50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Cedar
- Cashmeran
- Iris
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readByzance opens with a quiet tartness — pink pepper sharpening a black currant note, the way fruit reads when it is still slightly underripe. It sets a tone of restraint rather than welcome.
The heart goes powdery and soft. Cashmeran lays a creamy woody warmth under the iris, and a thread of cedar keeps the powder from turning sweet. There is something cashmere-like about the texture, dim and brushed.
Madagascar vanilla and suede in the base do the closing, with moss adding a faint chypre coolness underneath. Byzance is more dusk than gourmand — a beige-toned scent that hovers close to skin and rewards listeners over an audience.
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.




