Secret Encounter
Ginger and pink pepper create a sharp, fresh-spicy opening that is both invigorating and slightly peppery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Sage
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and pink pepper create a sharp, fresh-spicy opening that is both invigorating and slightly peppery. Sage emerges quickly, adding an herbal greenness that tempers the spice and leads into the heart. Leather and tonka bean form the core accord, blending animalic warmth with sweet vanillic richness. Amber and vanilla deepen the base with resinous sweetness, while cedar provides dry woody support and patchouli adds an earthy grounding. The scent evolves from spicy-herbal to a sweet leathery dry-down with moderate projection that remains noticeable for hours. Best for cool fall evenings or formal occasions, it maintains a complex structure throughout its wear.
Scent twins
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