Inconfessable
Ginger and black pepper ignite the skin with a simultaneous flash of citrusy heat and airborne spice, sharpening the opening to a near-electric crackle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and black pepper ignite the skin with a simultaneous flash of citrusy heat and airborne spice, sharpening the opening to a near-electric crackle. Cardamom sweeps in within minutes, its cool green sweetness softening the pepper while nutmeg dusts the heart with a faint bakery warmth, turning the accord from fiery to gently toasted. Cedar arrives early, threading dry pencil shavings through the spice cloud, then patchouli settles underneath, adding a loamy, cocoa-tinged earthiness that stretches the composition into a muted wood-panelled dry-down. Projection drops from arm’s-length flare to intimate hum after two hours, leaving a clean spice-cedar shadow perfect for close office quarters or cool autumn walks. Overall character is a bright, peppery wood that never turns heavy, balancing freshness against grounding patchouli.
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.