Hossegor
Black pepper crackles like sun-scorched driftwood, its dry heat instantly fused with crystalline sea salt that leaves a faint white film on skin.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Salty90
- Aquatic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Sea Salt
- Frankincense
- Ambrox
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles like sun-scorched driftwood, its dry heat instantly fused with crystalline sea salt that leaves a faint white film on skin. Frankincense arrives within minutes, not churchy but mineral, stretching the salt into a cool incense breeze that hums against ambrox’s clean musk. Vetiver threads a green, slightly bitter root tone through the incense, preventing the base from sliding into generic ambergris sheen; instead the dry-down feels like damp ocean boards at dusk, salty skin still warm from the day’s sun. Projection stays arms-length for six hours, a skin-close aura perfect for post-beach dinners or windy coastal drives in late summer through early fall.
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.
