Arsenico
Arsenico opens with pineapple and bergamot striking a fresh, sweet-acidic note, with apple adding a softer, rounded edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Balsamic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Apple
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Birch
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readArsenico opens with pineapple and bergamot striking a fresh, sweet-acidic note, with apple adding a softer, rounded edge. The fruit reads clearly against a faint resinous undercurrent from the start.
In the heart, tonka bean and benzoin push the composition toward a warm, balsamic sweetness, while birch and patchouli introduce a dry, slightly smoky character. Jasmine softens the transition without dominating. Cedar adds structure.
The base settles into oakmoss and ambergris — earthy, salty, and faintly marine — giving depth that contrasts the sweetness above. The result is a fruity-balsamic construction with a mossy, animalic dry-down that leans darker than its opening suggests.
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.
