Black Pepper & Sandalwood
Bergamot and saffron open together — the bergamot clean and citrusy, the saffron adding a metallic, slightly leathery warmth from the first moment.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Oud70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Cinnamon
- Oud
- Black Pepper
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and saffron open together — the bergamot clean and citrusy, the saffron adding a metallic, slightly leathery warmth from the first moment. Nutmeg contributes a dry, faintly spiced edge that keeps the opening from reading purely citrus.
Cinnamon, black pepper, and oud form the core of the heart. The oud here reads resinous rather than medicinal, reinforcing the cinnamon's sweetness without tipping into gourmand territory. Damask rose adds a floral counterpoint that slightly softens the spice stack.
Sandalwood and patchouli in the base give a creamy, earthy foundation. Cypriol adds smoky depth and cedar provides some linear dryness. The overall profile is a dark, resinous oriental — warm-spicy and woody with persistent leather-adjacent depth.
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.
