Ytzma
Black pepper crackles first, its dry heat lifting lemon’s bright oil into a spicy citrus flash that feels almost effervescent against nutmeg’s rounded warmth.
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.
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Nutmeg
- Magnolia
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, its dry heat lifting lemon’s bright oil into a spicy citrus flash that feels almost effervescent against nutmeg’s rounded warmth. Magnolia and orange blossom arrive quickly, turning the opening sparkle into a creamy white floral heart that smooths the spices edges while keeping a faint pepper hum underneath. The base is where the perfume settles into its character: sandalwood’s milky wood anchors vetiver’s rooty smoke, ambergris adds a salt-skin glow, and patchouli plus castoreum weave a dark leathery tobacco ribbon that lingers for hours. During the dry-down the mossy oakmoss keeps the tobacco airy rather than syrupy, so the scent stays mobile and slightly animalic without becoming heavy.
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.
