Signature Noir
Basil and pink pepper open with a snap of green heat, softened quickly by bergamot's citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Freesia
- Virginia Cedar
- Anise
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and pink pepper open with a snap of green heat, softened quickly by bergamot's citrus brightness. The composition doesn't linger at the surface — it moves with purpose.
Ginger and anise arrive mid-development, adding a cool, slightly medicinal edge that sits alongside cedar and freesia. The anise keeps things slightly sharp rather than sweet, and the cedar provides a dry backbone.
Tonka, myrrh, and olibanum close the loop with a resinous warmth that deepens without turning heavy. The balsamic quality is restrained. This is a structured, spice-forward masculine fragrance that rewards cooler weather and evening wear.
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.