Hortense
Black pepper and cardamom lead with a dry, crackling spice that bergamot lifts into something brighter without dulling the heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Smoky70
- Balsamic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cardamom lead with a dry, crackling spice that bergamot lifts into something brighter without dulling the heat. The opening has presence — this is a spice-forward composition that declares itself immediately.
Cinnamon arrives in the heart alongside incense and frankincense, building a smoky resinous core that the rose tempers only slightly. The incense accord is substantial here: dry, slightly papery, and cool-burning rather than sweet-churchy.
Cedar and vanilla anchor the base, the cedar keeping things dry and structural while vanilla adds warmth without overt sweetness. The result is an incense-spice fragrance with a woody drydown — best suited to cooler weather and evenings.
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.
