Soft Haze
The opening reads as cold air over wet stone — the mineral note convention, ozone scrubbed of any synthetic sweetness.
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.
- Woody70
- Warm Spicy60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Mineral Notes
- Black Pepper
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening reads as cold air over wet stone — the mineral note convention, ozone scrubbed of any synthetic sweetness. There's no citrus, no bright fruit; just a clean, slightly metallic transparency that sits high in the nose.
Black pepper in the heart adds a quiet crackle, more crystalline than fiery. It's the only real warmth in the composition. Cedar settles underneath with a dry, sharpened-pencil quality, holding the structure rather than enriching it. The result is austere, masculine-coded, and stays close to skin — the kind of fragrance you reach for in cold weather when you want presence without projection. Comparable in family to the alpine-water Creed it's often shopped against.
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.
