Musk Energy
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, electric crackle that lifts the lemon’s tart zest and lets cardamom’s cool green bite hover above the skin.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, electric crackle that lifts the lemon’s tart zest and lets cardamom’s cool green bite hover above the skin. Leather arrives quickly, folding the spices into a matte, suede-like panel that mutes the citrus brightness and sets a brisk, urban tone. Vetiver threads smoke through the hide, while amber pours a thin layer of resin underneath and patchouli adds earthy crumble, so the base feels like warm pavement after rain. The scent stays close, projecting no farther than a shirt collar, yet it persists for a full workday, slowly trading spice for soft wood and clean musk. Cool fall days and business-casual wardrobes fit its low-key swagger best.
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.
