Blue Spirit 2019
A peppery opening cuts in fast — dry, slightly metallic, less spice rack than freshly cracked.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather60
- Warm Spicy55
- Amber55
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA peppery opening cuts in fast — dry, slightly metallic, less spice rack than freshly cracked. The pepper does most of the work in the first ten minutes, framing what's coming rather than hiding it.
Ylang-ylang and nutmeg in the heart turn the composition warmer and rounder. The ylang adds a creamy, slightly banana-tropical sweetness that tempers the spice; the nutmeg keeps the whole heart from drifting into floral territory. Leather and amber settle in the base, the leather smooth and modern rather than animalic, the amber providing a soft balsamic glow. Closer-wearing than the bottle's name might suggest — masculine but not aggressive, suited to cool-weather evenings.
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.
