Acqua Wood
Black Pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that bergamot softens into a cool, bitter citrus edge rather than bright sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Lavender90
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Lavender
- Ambroxan
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBlack Pepper snaps open with a dry, nose-tingling crackle that bergamot softens into a cool, bitter citrus edge rather than bright sweetness. The heart stacks lavender’s clean, slightly camphorous lift against clary sage’s fuzzy green bitterness, while ambroxan adds a sheer, mineral amber glow and labdanum contributes a muted, leathery resin that keeps the aromatics from turning soapy. Sandalwood arrives early in the base, creamy and blond, supported by cedar’s pencil-shave dust and guaiac wood’s quiet smoked tea accent so the dry-down feels like pale wood still radiating peppery heat. Projection stays polite, a calm woody skin aura that persists through a workday without announcing itself across the room. Office-safe in spring through early fall, it behaves like a smart casual shirt: crisp, woody, lightly aromatic, never loud.
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.