Instinct
Black pepper hits first, with grapefruit and bergamot underneath — a peppery-citrus opening that reads dry, slightly biting and very current.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper hits first, with grapefruit and bergamot underneath — a peppery-citrus opening that reads dry, slightly biting and very current. The pepper is the lead, not a garnish.
Cedar in the heart picks up the dryness of the top and runs with it. There is no floral or fruit relief through the middle; the composition holds a single woody-aromatic register, becoming progressively dustier and more pencil-shaving.
Vetiver and patchouli in the base ground everything in earth — vetiver smoky and grassy, patchouli darker and resinous. Overall character is a peppery vetiver-patchouli woody — masculine, daytime-or-evening flexible, cool-weather, with reasonable presence but no warmth.
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.
