Maria Callas
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the lemon’s tart oil rather than sweetening it.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Neroli
- Black Currant
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the lemon’s tart oil rather than sweetening it. Neroli follows quickly, its orange-blossom bitterness folding around black currant’s sharp green bud, creating a sour-floral hush that keeps the pepper alive. Rose arrives late but sheer, pressed like a petal between cedar planks and amber resin so the wood drinks most of the floral juice and leaves only a cool, papery blush. Over two hours the accord relaxes into a clean, woody skin scent with the sour edge of the opening still fizzing quietly at the edges. Projection stays within handshake range; the composition feels built for cool spring offices or a rain-safe summer gallery opening where discreet polish matters more than statement.
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.
