Like a Bad Girl
Black pepper and peach strike first: the pepper rasps while the peach keeps its skin-on tartness, creating a spicy-fruity tension that feels more downtown than candied.
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.
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Floral50
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Peach
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and peach strike first: the pepper rasps while the peach keeps its skin-on tartness, creating a spicy-fruity tension that feels more downtown than candied. Jasmine enters next, lending a slightly indolic creaminess that lets the peach slide toward liqueur, while freesia adds a cool, watery green snap that keeps the heart from going syrupy. Cedar arrives early in the dry-down, dry and pencil-sharp, musk sheathes it in clean laundry, and caramel finally warms the underside, turning the fruit into grilled peach rather than sugar topping. Sillage stays at arm’s length for six hours, projecting best in cool weather when the caramel stays soft and the pepper still hums.
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.
