Performance Red
Black pepper and grapefruit deliver a sharp, effervescent opening with spicy citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic70
- Woody60
- Citrus60
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and grapefruit deliver a sharp, effervescent opening with spicy citrus brightness. Lavender and cardamom form an aromatic heart that is both herbal and softly spicy, bridging top and base seamlessly. Sandalwood provides a creamy woody foundation, complemented by benzoin’s vanillic sweetness and patchouli’s earthy depth. The dry-down is warm and slightly powdery, with moderate sillage that stays intimate after the first hour. Longevity extends through a workday, making it versatile for casual or office wear in cool to warm conditions.
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.
