Dancing With A Stranger
Pink pepper and cardamom create an immediate soft-spicy warmth, brightened by a brisk orange and bergamot citrus lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Oud90
- Soft Spicy60
- Leather60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Papyrus
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom create an immediate soft-spicy warmth, brightened by a brisk orange and bergamot citrus lift. Jasmine and rose emerge quickly, their floral heart deepened by earthy iris and violet with a papyrus dryness. Sandalwood and cedar provide a woody foundation, while oud and leather add a resinous animalic depth alongside sweet vanilla and cocoa. Amber and tobacco lend a warm balsamic richness that balances the dry patchouli and vetiver earthiness. Projection starts strong but settles into a moderate sillage within two hours, lasting over twelve with evolving complexity. Best for cool evenings and formal occasions where its intricate layers can unfold.
Scent twins
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