Contralto
Pink pepper and clove announce themselves immediately — dry, prickling warmth with a faintly resinous edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy80
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
- Clove
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and clove announce themselves immediately — dry, prickling warmth with a faintly resinous edge. Orange blossom softens the opening slightly, keeping it from reading purely as a spice composition.
Guaiac wood forms a quiet, smoky-sweet heart. It has a roasted, slightly nutty character that blends naturally with the preceding spices, lending the fragrance a bonfire-adjacent warmth without pushing into obvious smokiness.
Vanilla and cashmeran create a smooth, cashmere-textured base that is warm and skin-close without being overtly sweet. The spice from the top persists faintly throughout. Overall this is a compact, wearable warm-spicy composition suited to cooler evenings and colder months.
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.
