Paris La Havane
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, sparkling crackle that immediately sets a taut, urban tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Lavender60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lavender
- Tobacco
- Rose
- Leather
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, sparkling crackle that immediately sets a taut, urban tone. Lavender slides in next, cooling the pepper’s heat while adding a clean, barbershop counterpoint; tobacco folds into the lavender, turning the heart softly honeyed and faintly smoky rather than syrupy sweet. Rose keeps the tobacco airy, preventing density, so the accord reads as brushed suede rather than heavy cigar. Leather emerges early in the base, picking up the pepper’s dryness and stretching it into a matte, midnight-black hide that is polished by warm amber and quietly earthy patchouli. The dry-down is close-wearing, a skin-tinted leather tinted with dried tobacco leaf and a shimmer of dry wood. Moderate projection stays within shirt range; it fits cool autumn nights, smart-casual bars settings, or a low-lit date where you want presence without shouting.
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.
