Oud Violet Intense
Black pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that immediately frames the scent as angular rather than lush.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Tonka Bean
- Olibanum
- Nutmeg
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper snaps open with a dry, woody crackle that immediately frames the scent as angular rather than lush. The heart folds in tonka bean’s soft almond facet, olibanum’s cool incense lift and nutmeg’s dusty warmth, creating a spicy-amber accord that blurs the opening’s edges without adding sweetness. As the spices relax, amber takes the lead, polishing the resins into a smooth, skin-close glow while musk fluffs the base into a clean, pepper-flecked haze. Projection drops to arm’s-length within two hours, then lingers as a peppery skin shimmer for the rest of the day. Cool evenings and smart-casual settings fit its restrained presence best.
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.
