The Perfect Smoking
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the bergamot’s thin citrus edge while nutmeg adds a dusty warmth.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Star Anise
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts the bergamot’s thin citrus edge while nutmeg adds a dusty warmth. The heart folds incense smoke around star anise’s licorice snap; jasmine stays low, a pale floral sweetness that keeps the smoke from turning acrid. Saffron threads a leathery, hay-like bitterness through the blend, sharpening the transition into the base. Sandalwood dominates the dry-down, creamy and blond, with vetiver adding a cool, rooty split and cedar giving quiet pencil-shave structure. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, then settles as a skin-close resinous wood. Cool autumn nights, dark denim, outdoor concerts.
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.
