Palindrome II
Black pepper crackles against bergamot in the opening, creating a dry, spicy brightness that quickly gets swallowed by castoreum’s oily fur.
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.
- Animalic70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Black Pepper
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles against bergamot in the opening, creating a dry, spicy brightness that quickly gets swallowed by castoreum’s oily fur. Osmanthus adds a faintly sweet apricot leather nuance that folds into the darker patchouli core, giving the heart a tarry tobacco tint without sweetness. Cardamom keeps the leather supple, stopping it from turning full saddle; instead it stays smoky and resinous, like scorched hide still warm from the forge. As the musky castoreum recedes, patchouli dominates the dry-down, earthy and unsweetened, with only a whisper of peppery lift left. Projection remains close but stubborn, a skin-trail that smells like yesterday’s motor oil on work gloves. Cool evenings, urban settings, leather jacket required.
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.
