Driven Eau de Toilette
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, granular crackle that bergamot quickly slices into a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Clary Sage
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, granular crackle that bergamot quickly slices into a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge. The heart folds orange blossom’s clean, waxy sweetness around clary sage’s fuzzy green aromatics, softening the pepper without fully erasing its spark. Vetiver takes over early, its cool, rooty smoke pulling the amber into a muted, earthy skin-scent that stays close and linear for hours. Projection drops to whisper range within ninety minutes, making it office-safe yet quietly present. Works best in cool spring mornings or air-conditioned spaces where the pepper can still twitch.
Scent twins
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