Désert Noir
Black pepper and pink pepper crackle open with immediate heat, while a dry clove-smoke accord rolls underneath like scorched leather.
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
- Leather80
- Aromatic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Smoke
- Clove
- Ginger
- Thyme
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and pink pepper crackle open with immediate heat, while a dry clove-smoke accord rolls underneath like scorched leather. Ginger and thyme arrive quickly, their green-herbal bite slicing through the pepper haze and lifting the composition before bergamot’s brief citrus flash adds a momentary sparkle. As the spices settle, osmanthus folds its faint apricot-leather nuance into the embers, and ambergris salts the skin with a mineral glow that keeps the base airy rather than dense. The scent stays linear after the first hour: a low campfire of pepper, clove and soft leather that never becomes syrupy or animalic. Projection rides close, projecting about arm’s length for three hours then relaxing to a personal aura perfect for cool evenings, smart-casual offices or autumn motorcycle rides.
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.
