Harmattan
Lavender opens cool and medicinal, immediately met by black pepper's dry crackle that roughs up the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tuberose80
- Soft Spicy60
- Lavender60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Tuberose
- Oud
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and medicinal, immediately met by black pepper's dry crackle that roughs up the edges. Tuberose surges in the heart, its creamy white petals smeared with saffron's leathered honey and ylang-ylang's banana-sweet oil, while vetiver threads a green, smoky rootiness through the bouquet. Real oud here is subtle, more barnwood than band-aid, anchoring the florals in dusty, resinous skin. The base is a burnished layer of tonka, sandalwood and full incense triad—myrrh, frankincense, opoponax—melting into a soft, vanilla-tinged amber that still carries peppery sparks from above. Projection stays within arm's length for eight hours, tilting the scent toward cool evenings and smart-casual offices.
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.
