Signature Black
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that bergamot softens into a fleeting citrus flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Cedar
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that bergamot softens into a fleeting citrus flash. Sage sweeps in early, its camphor-green edge slicing through the cedar planks to create an aromatic-woody core that smells like pencil shavings dusted with kitchen herbs. Tonka bean arrives first in the base, pumping out warm coumarin hay, then cocoa powder settles as a matte dark chocolate layer that muffles the amber glow rather than sweetening it. On skin the transition is swift: the pepper-bergamot brightness collapses within twenty minutes, leaving the cedar-sage duo to dominate for most of the wear before the cocoa finally dries to a dusty mocha skin scent. Projection stays polite, radiating only a forearm’s length for office-safe fall days when you want woods without campfire smoke.
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.
