Cherry Ambition
Pink pepper opens dry and warm before mandarin's soft citrus sweetness adds roundness to the spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Amber70
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orris
- Saffron
- Osmanthus
- Guaiac Wood
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper opens dry and warm before mandarin's soft citrus sweetness adds roundness to the spice. Saffron dominates the heart — metallic-floral and dense — alongside orris's chalk-and-violet powder and osmanthus's apricot-leather quality. The combination of saffron and osmanthus is interesting: both carry a golden, faintly animalic register that gives this composition real depth without going heavy.
Guaiac wood and frankincense provide a smoky, resinous base; amber and vanilla warm the whole construction. A clean take on the saffron oriental — accessible rather than opaque, with enough textural interest to reward attention.
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.
