Pikovaya Dama
A citrus-neroli opening leads immediately into something darker—incense smoke already visible through the brightness, rose petals touched by resin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Smoky75
- Rose65
- Woody65
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bulgarian Rose
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Incense
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readA citrus-neroli opening leads immediately into something darker—incense smoke already visible through the brightness, rose petals touched by resin. The contrast is deliberate, a card table lit by chandelier where polished wood and velvet hold equal weight. This isn't the rosy-fresh start that drifts sweetly into amber; it's neroli and rose shadowed from the first moment by cedar and patchouli beneath.
The heart thickens around incense and iris, with nutmeg adding a dry spice that keeps the florals from softening. Sandalwood and vanilla arrive late but stay quiet, more structure than sweetness. The musk never blooms into skin-scent intimacy—it remains cool, slightly aloof.
Pikovaya Dama wears formal. It suits someone comfortable in tailoring, drawn to perfumes that layer complexity without raising their voice. The name references Pushkin's gambler queen, and the scent does feel like a wager on contrasts: light against shadow, rose against resin, elegance against something slightly ominous.
Scent twins
In this family
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