Burnt Roses
Black Pepper snaps open with a dry, crackling spice that immediately scorches the edges of the Bulgarian Rose lurking beneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Rose80
- Woody60
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Oakmoss
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper snaps open with a dry, crackling spice that immediately scorches the edges of the Bulgarian Rose lurking beneath. The rose arrives already singed, its petals dusted with cinnamon heat and grounded by oakmoss’s cool, bitter green; lavender adds a clean, slightly metallic lift that keeps the bloom from going syrupy. As the peppery top recedes, sandalwood and cashmeran smooth the heart into a creamy, wood-lactone glow, while incense and olibanum release slow, resinous smoke that clings to skin like charred silk. Ambergris salts the base, giving the embers a subtle, skin-flicker radiance that lasts well into evening. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for cool nights when you want the memory of a fireplace rather than the blaze itself.
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.