Spicebomb Christmas Edition 2014
Pink peppergrapefruit fizz crackles for thirty seconds before cinnamon bark sweeps in, its red-hot ribbon dragging saffron’s leathery pollen straight into the heart.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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
- Cinnamon70
- Tobacco60
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readPink peppergrapefruit fizz crackles for thirty seconds before cinnamon bark sweeps in, its red-hot ribbon dragging saffron’s leathery pollen straight into the heart. The two spices bloom together, drying the citrus oils and turning the skin surface into a warm, slightly raspy suede panel. Vetiver threads a cool, grassy smoke through the heat, letting tobacco leaf emerge slowly as a cured, slightly sweet darkness rather than ashy cigar. From mid onwards the accord tightens: leather absorbs the residual grapefruit bitterness, cinnamon mellows to soft bark, and the whole settles into a close, resinous glow that smells like suede gloves stored with dried spices. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it an easy autumn evening choice when you want warmth without shouting.
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.
