Cedarstorm
Black pepper crackles against bergamot’s citrus brightness, creating a dry, spicy spark that feels like snapped twigs.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Cumin
- Cedar
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles against bergamot’s citrus brightness, creating a dry, spicy spark that feels like snapped twigs. Cumin slides in immediately, adding a faintly sweaty warmth that fuses with cedar’s pencil-shaving dryness while nutmeg dusts the edges with sweet heat. The heart stays linear: cedar dominates, its sawdust character warmed by ambergris’ salty skin-like glow and sandalwood’s creamy lift, while frankincense and olibanum weave a quiet, resinous smoke trail that keeps the wood from turning sweet. Hours later the incense settles into a cool, mineral-grey ember still glued to cedar, projecting a calm, dry woodsmoke aura that stays close to fabric. Moderate sillage, office-safe, excels in cool fall days when you want spice without sugar.
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.
