Bad Boy Cobalt Elixir
Sage and black pepper open with a dry, almost austere character — the herb and spice working against each other until something darker asserts itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 22 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 Spicy70
- Smoky60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Black Pepper
- Resinous Woods
- Black Truffle
- Frankincense
By the editors · 2 min readSage and black pepper open with a dry, almost austere character — the herb and spice working against each other until something darker asserts itself. Black truffle in the heart is the unusual move: deeply earthy and savory, intensified by resinous woods that make the mid-phase feel brooding rather than merely warm.
Vanilla and olibanum in the base introduce warmth and sweet smoke, the frankincense burning low and clean. Among Carolina Herrera's more adventurous releases under the Bad Boy umbrella — the truffle note separates it from standard pepper-and-wood flankers. Dense and close-wearing, suited for cold weather and situations calling for something distinctive rather than simply approachable.
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.
