Eau de Cologne
Black and pink pepper crackle open with a dry, nose-tingling spice that feels like crushed stems.
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.
- Smoky90
- Tobacco80
- Leather80
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Vetiver
- Saffron
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack and pink pepper crackle open with a dry, nose-tingling spice that feels like crushed stems. Vetiver and saffron arrive quickly, adding a grassy, hay-like dryness streaked with leathery tobacco leaves; the accord is earthy rather than sweet. Patchouli thickens the heart, pushing the composition toward a dark, slightly camphorous green that keeps the tobacco from ever turning honeyed. In the base, sandalwood provides a creamy counter-current while oud and leather lock into a resinous, smoky spine; ambergris gives a salty, skin-warmed glow, and benzoin offers quiet vanilla-tonka depth without sugar. The smoke note lingers longest, a dry campfire residue that clings to clothes. Projection sits at arm’s length for six hours before it relaxes into a leather-tobacco skin veil; cool evenings or layered fall knits suit its austere character.
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.
