Serpentine Silver
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the mimosa’s sweet pollen dust into something almost electric.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Woody60
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Mimosa
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the mimosa’s sweet pollen dust into something almost electric. The flower’s soft yellow facets stretch across the heart, turning creamy as sandalwood rises from below, adding lactonic warmth that blunts the pepper’s edges. White musk seeps in slowly, laundering the wood into a skin-close sheet that smells like sun-warmed linen with residual spice caught in the weave. After two hours the pepper recedes, leaving a powdered wood halo that stays within handshake distance yet persists through a workday. Quiet enough for office air-conditioning, polished enough for a gallery dinner; spring and early fall suit its temperate glow.
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.
