Narcotic Elixir Extrait de Parfum
Pink pepper and cardamom open with a clean, slightly fizzy spice burst — pepper's fresh bite against cardamom's cool, mentholated edge.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Saffron
- Rose
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and cardamom open with a clean, slightly fizzy spice burst — pepper's fresh bite against cardamom's cool, mentholated edge. There's no citrus to soften the start; the spice carries the first minutes alone.
Leather, saffron, and rose form the heart. This is the composition's identity: saffron's leathery-warm spice deepens into a true leather accord, with rose threading a smoky-jammy floral through the middle. Rose-saffron-leather is recognisable from oud-adjacent traditions.
Patchouli and musk close into an earthy-animalic drydown. Patchouli grounds the leather, musk extends the animalic line. Overall reads as a smoky leather-rose with extrait concentration — cooler-weather, evening-leaning, unisex with masculine tilt. Strong projection early, settles into a close, long-wearing base.
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.
