Burdèl 2020
Black pepper and cumin crackle on skin, their dry heat pulling bergamot’s zest into a peppery haze that feels almost toasted.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Caramel60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cumin
- Labdanum
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and cumin crackle on skin, their dry heat pulling bergamot’s zest into a peppery haze that feels almost toasted. Labdanum arrives early, thickening the spices with a resinous leather edge while pink pepper keeps the top bright and airborne. The heart swaps smoke for roots: guaiac wood’s pencil-shaving grain meets vetiver’s earthy grass, and iris adds a cool, carrot-like powder that muffles lily-of-the-valley’s green bell. Ambergris and caramel slowly bloom from below, turning the ember-spiced woods into a salty, slightly burnt toffee that clings to moss and sandalwood’s creamy grain. Projection stays within arm’s length for eight hours, the dry-down a skin-close whisper of musk, moss and singed sugar that feels best under a wool coat in cold air.
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.
