Alioth
Black pepper, saffron, and cardamom open with a bold warm-spicy accord that feels both aromatic and slightly pungent.
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.
- Warm Spicy80
- Rose60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, saffron, and cardamom open with a bold warm-spicy accord that feels both aromatic and slightly pungent. Bulgarian rose and ylang-ylang introduce a floral heart that softens the spices with rich, slightly sweet floralcy. Patchouli adds an earthy depth that anchors the composition and prevents it from becoming too diffuse. Ambergris provides a saline, slightly animalic base that blends with vanilla's sweetness and musk's cleanliness. The dry-down becomes a balanced blend of spicy, floral, and resinous elements with moderate projection. Longevity extends beyond eight hours, making it suitable for formal evenings in cool to cold weather conditions.
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.
