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Black pepper crackles on first spray, dry and woody with a faintly metallic edge that immediately signals the composition wants to sit closer to a dark shirt than to bare skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Oud90
- Rose80
- Woody70
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Black Rose
- Saffron
- Egyptian Jasmine
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles on first spray, dry and woody with a faintly metallic edge that immediately signals the composition wants to sit closer to a dark shirt than to bare skin. Within minutes the pepper folds into black rose, a velvety bloom rendered in deep burgundy tones; saffron threads run through the petals, adding a leathery, hay-like dryness, while Egyptian jasmine lifts the heart just enough to keep the accord from turning tarry. The rose-saffron duet persists for several hours, gradually sinking into a clean, lightly medicinal oud that never becomes barnyard but instead stays cool and pencil-shaving crisp. Projection stays arm-length for the first two hours, then settles to a warm, woody murmur that clings to fabric until the next day. Cool autumn evenings and smart-casual offices feel like natural territory; the scent reads quietly expensive without ever 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.
