Bad Boy Le Parfum
The opening is a sharp hit of pink grapefruit zest cut with the green, almost metallic edge of clary sage—it's bright without turning sweet, and the sage keeps it from feeling like a citrus cologne.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather55
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Black Pepper
- Leather
- Vetiver
- Leather
- Black Pepper
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a sharp hit of pink grapefruit zest cut with the green, almost metallic edge of clary sage—it's bright without turning sweet, and the sage keeps it from feeling like a citrus cologne. Within minutes, black pepper emerges with real bite, not the polite dusting you often get but something that actually registers as spice. The leather underneath is smooth and somewhat synthetic, more "leather jacket" than saddle or birch tar.
As it dries down, vetiver adds a whisper of smokiness and earth, grounding the composition without weighing it down. The grapefruit fades but never fully disappears, leaving a faint brightness around the edges. What you're left with is a streamlined masculine fragrance that leans modern rather than vintage—clean pepper and leather with just enough citrus to keep it from feeling heavy. It's direct, wearable, and built for someone who wants presence without elaboration.
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.
