Cullinan Diamond
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that quickly softens as orris butter melts into vanilla, creating a suede-like creaminess that blurs the edges of the spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Iris80
- Powdery70
- Woody60
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Orris
- Vanilla
- Rose
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that quickly softens as orris butter melts into vanilla, creating a suede-like creaminess that blurs the edges of the spice. The heart is dominated by this powdery iris-vanilla accord, kept from turning dessert-like by a taut rose that adds cool floral lift and prevents any gourmand collapse. Cedar and suede in the base keep the texture matte: the wood provides quiet sawdust dryness while the suedey note stretches the iris into a skin-hugging leather impression, never loud but persistent. Over hours the pepper loses its snap and the composition settles into a pale, suede-wrapped amber with a faint cosmetic powder sheen. Projection stays close, a scented-skin effect rather than a trail, ideal for office days when you want polish without announcement.
Scent twins
In this family
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