Tyrannosaurus Rex 2018
Black pepper, neroli, bergamot, and nutmeg open in a complex spiced citrus, the pepper buzzy and the nutmeg warm-dry, with neroli's honeyed white-floral lift behind.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Leather75
- Animalic65
- Floral60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper, neroli, bergamot, and nutmeg open in a complex spiced citrus, the pepper buzzy and the nutmeg warm-dry, with neroli's honeyed white-floral lift behind. The entry is busy but well-stitched.
The heart shifts to jasmine, ylang-ylang, and osmanthus, building a creamy, slightly apricot-tinged white-floral cluster. Ylang adds a banana-leather richness that anticipates the base.
Leather, civet, and frankincense form the drydown's animalic-smoky core, with sandalwood and patchouli adding earthy structure and vanilla a faint sweet glow. Cedar gives dry pencil-shaving woods. The result is a dense, animalic floriental with leather and incense smoke holding longest. Bold, characterful, and built for cooler weather and dressed-up settings.
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.
