1902 Mandarine & Cuir
Pink pepper and cardamom launch a bright, fizzy snap that quickly tilts toward dry wood and tannic spice, setting up a lean aromatic frame.
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 Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom launch a bright, fizzy snap that quickly tilts toward dry wood and tannic spice, setting up a lean aromatic frame. Leather arrives early through the heart, riding on vetiver’s cool-grass rootiness; the absence of florals keeps the accord angular, almost paper-thin, like new suede brushed with pepper. As skin heat rises the leather warms, musk shears off any lingering sweetness, and the composition settles into a close, matte hide scent with a faint salt trace from vetiver. Projection stays within arm’s length for four hours then collapses to skin, making it an easy daytime leather for warm spring through cool fall offices or weekend errands.
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.
