1920 The Origin
Black pepper, cardamom and bergamot open with a dry, peppered citrus — a familiar smart-casual signature, more chic than blistering.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cumin
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, cardamom and bergamot open with a dry, peppered citrus — a familiar smart-casual signature, more chic than blistering. The spices are aromatic rather than hot.
At the heart, jasmine and cumin sit in unexpected tension: cumin's warm, slightly sweat-like skin smell pulls against jasmine's clean white-floral, giving the middle a body-warmth that more polished competitors avoid. It is the most distinctive section of the composition.
Ambergris in the base provides a salty, slightly mineral warmth, joined by cedar and patchouli for a mid-weight wood-and-resin landing. The whole thing reads like a competent peppered amber-woody — adult, evening-leaning, recognizably modern in its dry, restrained sweetness.
Scent twins
In this family
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