Poivre Electrique
Pepper sets the tone immediately — black and pink crackling together over the skin, dry and slightly biting, the kind of opening that wakes the nose rather than coaxes it.
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.
- Smoky70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Olibanum
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPepper sets the tone immediately — black and pink crackling together over the skin, dry and slightly biting, the kind of opening that wakes the nose rather than coaxes it.
Frankincense pulls the centre into resinous territory, smoke curling around the spice and lending a vaguely ceremonial weight. A whisper of myrrh deepens the balsamic shadow without tipping the composition into outright sweetness.
The base anchors itself on cedar and sandalwood, dry and slightly smoky woods that carry the pepper's bite well into the drydown. Overall the perfume reads sharp and contemplative, more austere than warming, suited to deliberate rather than casual occasions and holding its line for hours.
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.




