Peony Couture
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that anise softens into a licorice-toned haze.
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.
- Fresh50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Anise
- Peony
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that anise softens into a licorice-toned haze. The heart blooms quickly into a single, pale peony sheath whose soap-clean petals mute the spices rather than amplify them, turning the opening spark into something almost matte. Incense and frankincense fuse into one cool, stony smoke that drifts over cedar, giving the base a quiet, pencil-shaving dryness that lingers close to skin. Projection stays polite, a whispered curl of peppery smoke that feels best in mild spring air or an air-conditioned office. Complexity is low; the scent moves from bright spice to peony hush to incense cedar in a straight line, fading to a soft woody skin scent within four hours.
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.
