Clockwork
Black pepper crackles across a bright lemon-bergamot axis, the citrus oils sharpened rather than softened by the spice.
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.
- Violet70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Violet Leaf
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles across a bright lemon-bergamot axis, the citrus oils sharpened rather than softened by the spice. Nutmeg folds into violet leaf at the heart, creating a cool, slightly metallic greenery that cedar keeps dry and linear. Oakmoss and vetiver take over early, casting a cool, earthy shadow that turns the amber-violet tandem in the base muted and suede-like rather than sweet. Vanilla stays background, its creaminess mostly filling gaps left by the mossy woods. The scent holds close, projecting no more than arm-length for six hours, then settles into a clean vetiver-violet skin whisper. Office-friendly year-round, it shines brightest in brisk spring air where the pepper-citrus top can still snap.
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.
