Renaissance
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the lemon-grapefruit tandem into high, tart relief.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody80
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Sandalwood
- Frankincense
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the lemon-grapefruit tandem into high, tart relief. The citrus oils evaporate within minutes, leaving the pepper to settle onto a sandalwood base that arrives early and stays linear; the wood’s creamy grain is dusted with clove’s sweet heat and the cool, resinous smoke of frankincense. No heart phase appears—the scent simply softens, the spices rounding the sandalwood until it resembles a muted cedar-cinnamon blur. Projection drops to skin level after two hours, yet the incense-tinged wood persists as a quiet skin scent through a workday. Cool autumn days and office air conditioning suit its restrained presence.
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.