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Black pepper crackles first, a dry, woody spice that snaps against the nose before bamboo’s green, almost mineral wateriness slides underneath, cooling the heat.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Woody80
- Leather70
- Musky50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bamboo
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Ambergris
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, a dry, woody spice that snaps against the nose before bamboo’s green, almost mineral wateriness slides underneath, cooling the heat. No heart list appears, so the scent jumps straight to a sandalwood leather accord where creamy sandalwood softens tanned hide while cedar splinters add splintery dryness, preventing the wood from turning buttery. Amber ambergris threads salt-skin air through the woods, lifting them away from lumberyard territory into something beach-walk and sun-bleached, and musk finally powders the dry-down to a skin-warm, suede-like haze. Projection stays arm’s-length for four hours, then pulls closer as a salty wood musk that reads clean yet rugged. Cool evenings, jeans and denim territory; works whenever you want pepper without sweetness.
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.
