Metallique
Metallique opens with a bright, peppery citrus accent—bergamot sharpened by pink pepper—that quickly gives way to its true nature: a sandalwood composition wrapped in pale florals.
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.
- Woody85
- Musky60
- Fresh50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMetallique opens with a bright, peppery citrus accent—bergamot sharpened by pink pepper—that quickly gives way to its true nature: a sandalwood composition wrapped in pale florals. The heliotrope and lily of the valley hover at mid-range, neither sweet nor green, lending a clean, almost soapy elegance that feels deliberate rather than accidental. There's something intentionally muted about the florals, as if they're there to soften rather than define.
The dry-down settles into creamy sandalwood with vanilla and ambrette adding a soft, skin-like texture. Despite the name, there's nothing sharp or metallic here—it reads as polished and streamlined, the olfactory equivalent of brushed aluminum or pearl lacquer. The musk keeps everything close to the skin without disappearing entirely.
This suits someone who wants fragrance as finish rather than statement: understated, office-appropriate, the kind of scent that suggests care without drawing attention. It's restrained in a way that feels modern, almost minimalist, though the sandalwood gives it enough warmth to avoid coldness.
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.
