Bad Boy
A hot-pink pepper opening snaps awake immediately, bright and electric, tempered only slightly by bergamot's citrus edge.
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.
- Warm Spicy85
- Sweet75
- Chocolate70
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- White Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readA hot-pink pepper opening snaps awake immediately, bright and electric, tempered only slightly by bergamot's citrus edge. This isn't a gentle introduction. The spray announces itself with a crackling spice that borders on synthetic intensity, purposefully modern and unapologetic about its loudness.
As it settles, clary sage brings an herbal coolness that never quite tames the pepper but does shift the trajectory toward something more wearable. The sage reads almost medicinal at moments, clean and sharp, before the tonka bean rounds out the base with a soft, vanillic warmth. That sweetness feels deliberate, calculated to soften what could otherwise veer too astringent.
The result is a fragrance caught between aggression and accessibility—spicy enough to feel edgy, sweet enough to stay approachable. It's designed for someone who wants presence without complexity, impact without patience. The drydown is easier than the opening suggests, though that initial pepper blast is clearly the point.
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.
