Blackpepper
Black pepper opens dry and prickly, with the kind of nose-tingling sharpness that suggests something more cerebral than warm-spicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather80
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Black Pepper
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens dry and prickly, with the kind of nose-tingling sharpness that suggests something more cerebral than warm-spicy. There's no top-note softening, so the spice reads clean and direct from the first moment.
Leather emerges alongside the pepper, kept relatively dry and modern rather than smoky or animalic, giving the composition a tailored masculine edge. Tonka bean rounds the base with a soft, slightly hay-like sweetness that keeps the leather from feeling austere.
Musk in the dry-down brings everything close to the skin. The overall character is minimalist, urbane, and faintly retro, evoking polished oxblood shoes and a lightly worn jacket. It suits cooler weather, daytime through evening, and wardrobes built around restraint.
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.
