Segno
Black pepper and basil open with an herbal sharpness — the pepper registers as genuinely spicy, the basil giving the top an anise-adjacent green quality that's brisk rather than culinary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Warm Spicy65
- Lavender60
- Leather60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Basil
- Lavender
- Leather
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and basil open with an herbal sharpness — the pepper registers as genuinely spicy, the basil giving the top an anise-adjacent green quality that's brisk rather than culinary. Lavender in the heart settles the composition into a classic aromatic structure. The base makes the decisive statement: leather and patchouli ground the fragrance in earthy, slightly animalic darkness, supported by oakmoss and vetiver in the drydown. Lemon hides through the whole composition, its brightness cutting against what could otherwise become oppressively heavy. The profile reads as a masculine aromatic leather — linear in the fougère tradition, best in cooler months when the dry depth has room to develop.
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.
