Ishq
Black Pepper crackles first, a dry spark that ignites saffron’s oily leather nuance while cardamom’s cool green camphor lifts the heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Sage
- Leather
- Cypriol
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper crackles first, a dry spark that ignites saffron’s oily leather nuance while cardamom’s cool green camphor lifts the heat. Sage enters early, its bittersweet herbaceous facet threading through the spices and tilting the accord toward smoky austerity rather than kitchen warmth. The spices mute quickly, letting cypriol’s earthy, vetiver-like smoke entwine with a matte black leather that feels velvety rather than tarry. Wear is close and linear: after ninety minutes the heart is gone and you’re left with a quiet skin-scent of pepper-flecked saddle leather that persists for six hours. Cool evenings, smart-casual attire, office-safe projection.
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.
