Empressa
A sharp scatter of pink pepper and bergamot opens quickly, then peach softens the edges—not candied, but fleshy and almost bruised.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Amber55
- Vanilla50
- Rose40
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Peach
- Blood Orange
- Blood Orange
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readA sharp scatter of pink pepper and bergamot opens quickly, then peach softens the edges—not candied, but fleshy and almost bruised. Blood orange flickers through, tart and vivid, before neroli takes over the heart. The orange blossom note here is bright and slightly soapy in the classical sense, grounded by a dusting of rose that never blooms into full sweetness.
As it settles, the base grows warmer and denser. Brown sugar and vanilla lend a caramelized roundness, while sandalwood and patchouli add woody depth. Olibanum provides a resinous thread that keeps the sweetness from cloying, and amber wraps everything in a honeyed warmth. The musk is soft, barely there—more a thickening of the air than a distinct note.
Empressa feels constructed for presence without aggression: polished, feminine in a boardroom sense, and decidedly grown-up. It wears like confidence worn lightly.
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.
