Kimitsu for Him
Black pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts quickly into bitter grapefruit peel.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Neroli
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry spark that lifts quickly into bitter grapefruit peel. Neroli arrives within minutes, its honeyed orange-blossom facet softening the pepper’s bite while keeping the profile crisp. Vetiver threads through the heart, adding grassy smoke that darkens the neroli and prepares the ground for amber and cedar. In the dry-down, the amber spreads a resinous warmth, cedar supplies clean wood shavings, and musk blurs the edges into a skin-close haze. Projection stays polite, radiating about arm’s length for the first three hours before settling into a whisper. Cool spring mornings and smart-casual offices are its natural habitat.
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.
