McQueen Parfum
Black pepper and pink pepper open the composition with a clean, dry heat.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Clove
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and pink pepper open the composition with a clean, dry heat. Clove sharpens the accord further, adding a faintly medicinal edge without dominating. The opening is peppery and brisk.
Tuberose arrives with considerable presence in the heart — creamy, rubbery, and slightly indolic. Ylang-ylang contributes a banana-like richness that amplifies the tuberose's full character. The combination is opulent and uncompromising.
Vetiver and patchouli anchor the base in earthy, woody territory, pulling the white floral gravity downward. Benzoin introduces a gentle resinous warmth. The overall structure is a confident, dark floral — spiced and grounded, built around tuberose at full volume.
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.
