1989
Pink pepper crackles at the opening, a dry sparkle that quickly folds into jammy raspberry and dark plum, turning the fruit thick and almost wine-stained.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Raspberry
- Plum
- Olibanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles at the opening, a dry sparkle that quickly folds into jammy raspberry and dark plum, turning the fruit thick and almost wine-stained. The resinous olibanum arrives early, wrapping the berries in a translucent frankincense smoke while patchouli anchors the base with cocoa-brown earth, preventing the sweetness from drifting into syrup. Over hours the fruit quiets, leaving a quiet incense-laden wood that wears close to skin, projecting no more than forearm distance yet stubbornly persistent. Cool autumn days and low-lit lounges let the smoky-plum accord breathe without overheating; a second skin for gallery openings or after-hours cafés rather than bright outdoor spaces.
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.
