Colibri
Black pepper opens with a sharp, dry spice that quickly settles into a warm aromatic veil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody70
- Mossy70
- Warm Spicy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Oakmoss
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper opens with a sharp, dry spice that quickly settles into a warm aromatic veil. Lavender and rose emerge, the floral heart softened by cinnamon's sweet warmth and oakmoss's earthy green depth. Sandalwood and frankincense form a resinous base, with ambergris adding a subtle animalic salinity and cashmeran providing a musky softness. The dry-down is woody and balsamic, retaining a soft spicy character from the pepper and cinnamon. Projection starts moderate but recedes to a skin-scent within three hours, best suited for cool weather evenings.
Scent twins
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