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Pink pepper crackles open with a bright, almost effervescent spice that feels simultaneously rosy and woody, setting up a transparent heat rather than dense fire.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Patchouli70
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Black Pepper
- Clary Sage
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles open with a bright, almost effervescent spice that feels simultaneously rosy and woody, setting up a transparent heat rather than dense fire. Black pepper and clary sage arrive quickly, the former doubling the piquancy while the latter’s soft herbal bittersweetness stretches the accord into something cooler and more aromatic, taming the opening snap. Patchouli dominates the base, delivering a clean, lightly camphoraceous earth that mingles with Virginia cedar’s dry pencil-shaving wood to form a muted, softly spiced wood accord that hums close to skin. Mid-stage the peppers recede, letting the sage’s musky-green facet hover over the patchouli, creating a quiet, slightly dusty quiet that reads as contemporary and unisex. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it office-friendly yet interesting in spring and early fall.
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.
