Black Python
Black Pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that feels almost carbonated.
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.
- Lavender70
- Aromatic60
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lavender
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that feels almost carbonated. Lavender sweeps in within minutes, cooling the spice and tilting the accord toward barbershop cleanliness; orange blossom adds a faint soapiness that keeps the heart airy rather than floral-sweet. The tonka base lands softly, folding the earlier pepper heat into a muted almond-coumarin skin scent that lasts about five hours. Projection stays polite, radiating maybe a forearm’s length for the first two hours before collapsing to skin. The thin pyramid reads as a minimalist aromatic-fresh construct, crisp enough for office AC air yet warm enough for cool spring evenings.
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.