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Black pepper sets a sharp, peppery opening that's immediately tempered by vetiver's dry, rooty earth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Patchouli50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper sets a sharp, peppery opening that's immediately tempered by vetiver's dry, rooty earth. The composition skips a traditional citrus top and goes straight into spice and earth.
Without a layered heart phase, the pepper-vetiver chord extends through the middle, with patchouli folding in an earthy, slightly damp-soil quality. The development is essentially linear — a tight spicy-woody-earthy braid rather than a multi-stage progression. Musk smooths the drydown into a warmer, skin-close finish, softening the rough edges without erasing the dryness. The overall character is masculine-coded and utilitarian, a fresh-spicy with smoky-earthy undertow, the kind of structure built for daily wear rather than statement projection.
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.
